Tuesday, January 22, 2008

A Dubious Prank


Allow me to share just one item from CES. As regular readers know, I like to read the tech blog Gizmodo on a regular basis. Before covering the event, they were given a demo unit of a product called TV-B-Gone, which is essentially a universal remote that can turn off any TV set if one is annoyed by loud televisions in public spaces.


One of Gizmodo's writers decided to use it for more deviant endeavors. Watch the video on this link to see what hilarity ensued as they walked the show floor shutting of every TV in sight - even disrupting a press conference with Motorola.


In hind sight, it's not the nicest or most innocent prank - but I definitely would have done this if I had the technology and the resources to do it. Oh, and you can read the consequences here.

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