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NewsAlarm: Breaking News and Eardrums with 85dB Updates
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by Truemorist | March 20, 2009 at 01:58 pm
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Why settle for the quiet ping of Google notifiers or a silent streams of feeds and Tweets when you can get a screaming siren of news alerts at 85 dB? Such is the logic of the NewsAlarm — are bravely constructed mashup of high and low tech that pairs the New York Times NewsWire API with a conventional household smoke alarm.
Talk about hardwired annoyance: this handy little gadget will ring the alarm like Beyoncé and drum & bass sirens every time "a pre-determined word or phrase comes through the service".
Wow. It's like having every headline yelled at you in ALL CAPS. Only louder.
What's next: lifescreaming?
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at 14:00 on March 20th, 2009
This would be so awful I don't even know where to start...
at 14:17 on March 20th, 2009
I dunno - I can see this being useful in a newsroom if it monitored the newswires/feeds/tweets etc for set phrases. Though I'd want to be able to choose the sound of the alert. Perhaps something more soothing like the voice of Pierce Brosnan. "So sorry to bother you, there is some news..."