A device that shuts off any television set?
Didn't Elvis Presley have one of these?
Great, a low tech ECM device for terrorists.
A friend of mine got a new watch that could be programmed to serve as a remote control. So we went to a bar one night and he programmed it to take over the TVs above the bar. Around closing time one of the bouncers was directed to turn off the TVs. So he did so, then my friend, with a couple subtle presses of a button on his watch, turned them all back on.
The manager yells at the bouncer, telling him to turn off the TVs. The bouncer does so again, my friend turns them back on. Eventually the bouncer was frustrated, but still clueless, so he unplugged the TVs.
I thought that was called a thong.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
We live in an apt and our obnoxious next door neighbor watches stuff like Apocaplypse Now or something similar, at too high a volume. I wonder if I could turn off his t.v.
He he he he he
I will certainly have a use for it.
Every set in every waiting room seems to be tuned to CNN.
My wrist watch is a universal remote. Controls TV and VCR. It's great when you are at a doctors office and don't want to listen to soaps and risk your life manually changing the channels.
He was told to NEVER TO USE HIS FLAT SCREEN TV AGAIN UNDER THREAT OF BEING JAILED.
If he pulled that here, he'd be eating that key chain. Now, who's mischievous?
Cornfield Electronics? I'm all ears.
We are witnessing the seeds of anarchy sown by technology. Hehehehe.
mark
I want one of these!
Seems that I and a neighbor had the same Idea.. hook up an appliance controller to the TV, and turn it on or off from the comfort of the bed.. ( This was before remotes were everywhere for everything )
Problem was, we evidently both had the same controller code.. for something.. ( anyway, mine was the TV.. )
One night my TV went off.. no reason.. I "punched" it back on.. a little while later, it went off again... I turned it on again.. off again, on again..
I waited a while, then turned it on manually.. Everything was fine for the rest of the night..
Next night, the "war" started again, about 10 pm..
I finally figured out what must be going on, and changed my code.. on every module in the house.. ( I had 8 of them, plus the controller itself..)
No moral to the story, just thought it applied here..
The more things change, the more they stay the same..
Just different technology..
Welcome to the TV Zapper Wars..
I've been doing this for awhile with my PocketPC that has remote capability. While visiting my uncle, who was in the other room, I turned the TV off before my aunt touched touched the power button in order to leave. She jumped back, surprised. "Did you do that?" she asked. I obviously denied it. When my aunt turned it back on, I'd turn it right back off. I kept doing this until she finally called for my uncle.
I played along, and agreed with her that it was indeed turning on and off on its own. But I wouldn't do it with him in the room. He would leave, and I would start all over again.
So she'd call him back in and...nothing. The TV worked perfectly. Now my uncle was mad and walked into the other room again. My aunt was going crazy, because it wouldn't do it when he was in the room.
I left it off for awhile until my uncle returned. I waited for him to say something like, "TV's don't just turn on and off by themselves." Then I did it and he got white as a ghost.
He would get up and turn it off, and I let them get confident that the "haunting" was over, and when they started to get ready to leave I would turn it back on again and start flipping through the channels furiously. My uncle would unplug the TV and then plug it back in again. I'd wait about 10 seconds and then "click" -- on it would go again.
When my aunt would say "It keeps turning off," I'd turn it off. Then she would say, "Now watch, it will turn on." So I'd wait to throw her off, and then she would throw her hands up in the air in frustration as it turned back on. She said, "A lady died in this apartment, do you think it could be her?"
I even had them round up the remotes, remove the batteries, and lay the remotes on the concrete porch all to no avail. He still gives me a hard time about doing that.
Sounds like a good way to start a fight!
I wish they had a gizmo like that that would work on these d**n boom boxes in cars!
real kill your television ping
I'll shell out $15 for one of these! I am so sick of everywhere I go, from restraunts to airports, etc etc etc.. there's a damned TV going.