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Media Center Bathroom Extender
henrysunset writes "...Extend your stay in the bathroom with this inexpensive Media Center Bathroom Extender for Windows Media Center Edition PC's. The guide shows you how to control a Media Center PC from another room with a cheap XBox controller w/ built in LCD and a little soldering."
Shouldn't this be labeled funny? CCFL backlights do use relatively high voltages, about 1200V to start and 200V to operate, but their current use is best measured in mA. A backlight inverter will give you a jolt you can feel if you're holding the wires, but the current is pretty much guaranteed to mostly go through the skin. I guess if you stuck two nails in your hands (can you put me up for the night?) and attached the leads to them you might get the current to go someplace unfortunate if you coaxed the inverter into producing starting voltage for you, but that's about it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Xbox:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacente r/evaluation/devices/xboxextenderkit.mspx
t er/evaluation/devices/default.mspx
MCX linup:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacen
Saw these at CES at the NextGen home. A prefab home wired up with all the latest stuff. The extenders run on RDP but with an extended protocall for the streaming video. The devices themselvs have no tuners but these are expected to be released with MCE 2005 which should support multiple tuners along with high-def (no highdef for the extenders though). I'll be going to the unveiling on Nov 11th.