[blog.blprnt.com] is a physical computing device that sounds a 85dB alarm when specific news stories are detected 'off the wire' of The New York Times. The tracked news data is based on the recently released , an up-to-the-minute stream of published items at The Times and The International Herald Tribune.

The project consists of hacking an off-the-shelf smoke detector and connecting it with to a application that connects to the API. The application is currently configured to sound if more than 50% of the NYTimes headlines contain the word 'aliens'. As the author puts it: "You never know... right?"

UPDATE
I guess it would make real sense as a low-cost alert for .