The Universal Off Button

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 20, 2004 @05:04AM from the does-not-work-on-people dept.

jcr13 writes "Wired news is running a story about TV-B-Gone, a new weapon in the fight against the pervasiveness of television in our society. With this device, which takes the form of a keychain fob with a single button, you can turn off virtually any TV set. How does it work? By rolling through all known IR power-off codes, one by one, trying codes from the most popular brands first. Personally, I am terribly annoyed by TVs in restaurants and airports: they grab my attention over and over, no matter how hard I try to ignore them, and they distract me from the conversations that I should be having with my human companions. Unfortunately, the TV-B-Gone website seems to have already been swamped by the Wired coverage, so we cannot order these just yet. In the mean time, those of you with DIY proclivities may want to think about wiring one of these up yourself using a PIC chip or other micro-controller." An anonymous reader adds links to mentions at CNET, TV station KESQ and Ananova.

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Re:For those who like their TV... by ConceptJunkie · 2004-10-20 05:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".

I see no Elrond here.

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Re:Better yet by macdaddy · 2004-10-20 06:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Nice sig.
ADD by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-20 07:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

>>no matter how hard I try to ignore them, and they distract me

Next time remember to take your meds and If you turn off the game while I am watching it there will be trouble.
Re:I'll push your buttons. by GimmeFuel · 2004-10-20 09:11 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I pay taxes to build prisons. Therefore, if I want to, I can go into the prison and set all the murderers and rapists free.

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