Kill the TVs
cn | 02 March, 2006 10:54So I at long last have a TV. No cable, not even a DVD player, though I do sometimes watch movies via the DVD player on my computer. We get 4.5 channels and still I find myself wandering down to work in front of it.
But if ever I'm somewhere and I'm tired of the incessant brain drain box and don't have the remote, I can now get a new weapon to kill the TVs - it's called TV-B-Gone and it's $20. Here's the description from the Cool Tools blog:
Switch off thousands of TVs using just one small remote!When you want some peace and quiet in that local bar of restaurant or office all you need to do is hit the TV-B-Gone button. I've used it in bars and clubs, and in the headquarters building of a large South African bank which had too many TV's on the walls and some of which needed to switched off. It really does work.
--Paul Parkinson
[When you press the button, TV-B-Gone takes slightly more than a minute to emit more than 200 popular shutdown codes, like trying every possible combination to open a safe. The instructions include a diatribe against television in general, as if using this product is not merely a prank, but a serious political act. CP]
I'm thinking of purchasing just for kicks...But it makes you think - if there's a consumer electronic device that through the click of a button can shut down so many machines, what's out there that we don't know about? Consider this: the power went out for the weekend in my area. Over one hundred thousand people lost power and it was the coldest few days of the winter thus far. It was mayhem. Stores were closed, hotels lost power after their generators ran out, gas stations couldn't pump gas, etc.
If we can shut down all the TVs in a room with the click of a button, what will someone be able to do tomorrow, or next week? What can the government do now?
But it's still a cool gizmo. The original Cool Tools post is here.
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