We’ve had plants that tweet ; unborn babies that tweet ; and even our power consumption can be tweeted. Rambler, developed by Ricardo Nascimento and Tiago Martins, is the latest object that has been imbued with the potent power to tweet. It is a pair of ordinary sneakers embedded with a sensor that detects when the wearer is walking. Literally every step you take is tweeted as the word “tap” or symbol “.” depending on the pressure of each step. If you want to follow Rambler, here is a link to Rambler’s Twitter account. The project itself is a cheeky criticism of the desire to share mundane and “useless” information in the tweetosphere. Personally I kinda wish my shoes would guilt tweet me into getting up from my desk more often throughout the day. “syuzi hasn’t left her computer in 5 hours…” Hmm… it might work…
