A dog-lover has come out with a novel way to feed his pet by sending him a Twitter message.

The message is received by a mini-computer known as a Nanode microcontroller. This is linked up to little motor taken from a household printer HP Deskjet 500.
When the mini-computer receives the message, the buzzer goes off and Toby comes running over and sits beneath a tube under his feeder contraption.
Then the motor comes to life and pulls open a trap door, which releases a serving of food.
The doggy treat then comes dropping down the tube and into Toby's food bowl.
A digital camera then takes a photo of him and sends it back to Morris on Twitter - so he knows Toby has been fed.
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But using his new invention he is able to send his dog a treat from anywhere in the world.
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"Now he sits underneath, wagging his tail and waiting for the treats to drop," he said.
Morris loads up the feeder with crushed dog biscuits but not too much in case four-year-old Toby gets too many messages.
When a comment is received the mechanism drops a helping of crushed up dog biscuits out of the tube.
Morris has even rigged up an online camera so he can see Toby enjoying the food at his home in Milford Haven, West Wales.
He is even considering patenting his system, and friends and family have been amazed with the "Tweet treat" dispenser.
They have been joining in to send tweets to Toby so Morris has had to introduce restrictions to make sure Toby doesn't put on much weight.
"People have been sending him food at all hours of the day - so I had to limit it to between nine in the morning to nine in the evening.
"I'm thinking of doing an updated version which features a scale to weigh him before he is fed just to make sure he's not putting on too much puppy fat," he added.
Source-ANI