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BakerTweet

A simple, smart idea, BakerTweet is the brainchild of POKE on behalf of their neighbouring bakery. Basically a bakery-proof Twitter notifier, it can be pre-programmed with a list of baked products which can be scrolled through using the dial on the front. When a batch is just about to come out of the oven, a press of the button will notify the bakery's Twitter followers that freshly baked goods are now available.

On a technical note, BakerTweet is built using the extremely interesting (and open source) Arduino prototyping system. The possibilities of this kind of system — extending eminently hackable web apps like Twitter even further, into the realms of hardware — are the sort of thing that makes me glad to be working on the web right now.