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Twitter Critters Will Work For Body Massage

Twitter Critters Will Work For Body Massage

If there’s one thing I know you want, it’s a bizarre blobby ghost-thing for your desktop. Have I got a treat for you. Students at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University have teamed up to create just such a thing. The Kokonatchi is an aforementioned bizarre blobby ghost-thing that monitors your Twitter feed for incoming messages and, after scanning them for content (via trigger words, emoticons, etc), alerts the user (you) by lighting up (via RGB LEDs), making totally freaky bird noises, and wiggling all over the place. On its own, that’s not terribly exciting. I’ve written about similar…

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