Best Invention Ever

[Diplo]

Well, not quite, but a very good idea, anyway :

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65392,00.html

 

[epicstruggle]

id slap the inventor silly if i knew where he lived. What kinda crap is this. I dont want one person deciding if a bar/.... should have the tv on or off. idiot(the inventor)

epic

 

[Simon F]

I guess, in a way, it's the equivalent of the hypnotist "snapping his fingers".

Now, of course, if the inventor was really serious he'd have constructed an EMP device

 

[Leto]

No single person should posses that great power.

 

[Diplo]

No single person should posses that great power.

I think it's a sign of the times when "great power" is defined as being able to turn off a television set.

 

[Guden Oden]

Diplo,

Hhaha, yeah, it's ironic as hell, but as the thing can literally disable an entire showfloor of TVs with one push of a button, it really is quite a bit of power actually.

What if someone in some public place is watching, and the TV suddenly clicks off? It's a damn selfish act to take it upon oneself to wish away all the TVs in one's vicinity.

I'd not slap the inventor guy silly, but I'd like to slap him with a trout. At least he wasn't geeky enough to make it firmware upgradeable; new models will be immune to his stupidity.

 

[ZoinKs!]

At least he wasn't geeky enough to make it firmware upgradeable; new models will be immune to his stupidity.

Planned obsolescence. He's had some business classes.

 

[pcchen]

Just put something in front of the IR receiver of your TV... problem solved

 

[Leto]

At least he wasn't geeky enough to make it firmware upgradeable; new models will be immune to his stupidity.

Planned obsolescence. He's had some business classes.

Why doesn't someone make one that can be upgraded and claim his market then.

 

[Zaphod]

Why doesn't someone make one that can be upgraded and claim his market then.

You could write something like this quite easily on a cellphone that has a programmable interface to the IR port. Symbian based phones can do this, and I think recent Siemens phones can also via Java. IR codes are available in abundance on the net, and without an UI it shouldn't be many lines of code. The range, depending on the device, would be quite limited though. 2-5 meters I guess.

 

[3dcgi]

Just put something in front of the IR receiver of your TV... problem solved

I've seen some restaurants do just that.

I don't get why this product is getting any attention at all. Maybe just because even stupid people can use it. Just about anyone with a PDA could do the same thing. Also, 10 years ago I remember watches that doubled as remote controls. A few kids at my high school had them. It would confuse the hell out of the teachers when the TV suddenly "turned on by itself" during class.

 

[Sage]

Just about anyone with a PDA could do the same thing.

rrrrrrrreally...... I hav a PDA