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Inventor Open Sources "TV-B-Gone," and Why

Posted by kdawson on from the patents-b-gone dept.

ptorrone writes "Inventor Mitch Altman explains why he open-sourced his TV-B-Gone kit, the original stealth keychain fob for defeating TVs in public places. The title of the article is 'Patent-B-Gone' and perhaps the most interesting fact is that Mitch's brother is a patent attorney, but he still decided to release an open source hardware version of the TV-B-Gone, with pretty impressive results."

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  1. mod 0P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    volatile world of Baby take my And mortifying move any equipment engineering project from now on or list of other ASSOCIATION OF Same year, BSD with the numb;er

  2. London gets bomb-proff recycling bins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081103164134.e7a3sjmw&show_article=1

    A more practical solution would be to remove the sickness - Muslims - rather than to treat the symptom. It's time to boot out the barbarians while you still can...

  3. Re:I for one by baKanale · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, but you do! It's called "November 5th".