From the UW Madison press release: The interface consists, essentially, of a keyboard displayed on a computer screen. “The way this works is that all the letters come up, and each one of them flashes individually,” says Williams. “And what your brain does is, if you’re looking at the ‘R’ on the screen and all the other letters are flashing, nothing happens. But when the ‘R’ flashes, your brain says, ‘Hey, wait a minute. Something’s different about what I was just paying attention to.’ And you see a momentary change in brain activity.” Wilson, who used the interface to post the Twitter update, likens it to texting on a cell phone. “You have to press a button four times to get the character you want,” he says of texting. “So this is kind of a slow process at first.” However, as with texting, users improve as they practice using the interface. “I’ve seen people do up to eight characters per minute,” says Wilson. Whew. We’re safe for now. I believe this is the tweet in question .

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Video: Brain -> Twitter Interface

” Tweetlite ” is a Arduino-powered plexiglass cube that displays a person’s Twitter stream in LED flashes of Morse code. That would probably drive me nuts (although its creator Bruce Drummond does make a good point about its usefulness as a Morse code learning aid), but I’ve always been a sucker for ambient lights communicating status, even if in practice it can be a bit tedious.

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Tweetlite flashes Twitter messages in Morse code

Birdhouse is a notepad for Twitter, a place to collect and edit your tweets before you actually put them online. It’s designed to sit alongside your favorite iPhone Twitter client as a repository for your more polished one-liners. It’s wholly unnecessary for anyone who doesn’t care to ever think before they tweet. $4 . More than anything, though, at least for today, it’s the app with the most amusing introductory video of all time. For today. (I should have edited that.)

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"Hold that thought."

Apple has officially claimed the @Applecare account on Twitter. I know this because for the last year I had the @Applecare account. I spent the first few days trying to help people troubleshoot their Mac problems (usually just referring them to the Apple customer service helpline), but quickly became overwhelmed with the amount of work it takes to track down all the support issues, especially when I would scan through the Twitter search and proactively try to help people with their problems. It made for a fun few nights, but I knew it couldn’t last. I’m looking forward to seeing what Apple does with the account! (If you were following @Applecare before, it looks like you’ve been removed and will want to refollow.)

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Welcome to Twitter, Apple!