Those of you who follow the Twitter feed will already have seen this article which Rick Klaw originally found and Jay Lake and I re-tweeted. It talks about how various clever people have been hacking various devices so that they can send tweets to their humans alerting them of various things. This can be anything from “your laundry has finished, please empty me” to “your household energy use yesterday was xMWh at a cost of $y and $tons of CO2” to “House here – someone has just broken the living room window, help!”

I’m pretty sure we will see a lot more of this in the future. Personally I’d love CricInfo to tweet the fall of wickets in test matches, but that’s something else entirely.