http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/755e/ I had a wristwatch that had the ability to turn off a television. I used to turn off the television in health class when the teacher was forcing us to watch how babies were made, etc. The only time I ever got caught was in science class when we were watching some documentary. I used my watch to turn the TV off but I made the mistake of telling my friend next to me that I was going to do it. Needless to say, he starts laughing, I start laughing and before long we are both laughing uncontrollably until the teacher sends us both out into the hallway and gives a toungue-lashing. He was the defensive coordinator on the high school football coaching staff so I thought for sure we were going to get popped. I guess we were just lucky that day.
I had one of those watches that you could use as a full function remote for any tv. It was badass. I used it all the time on tv's.
I need one off those. At my gym people keep turning up the volume on the 8 different TVs even though they're not supposed to, and the acoustics are terrible, thus leading to a giant noise clusterf**k where I can't hear myself think. It would be nice to be able to mute them all with my watch.
Does anyone remember the Sega IR-7000? It was the electronic organizer that could turn off televisions
Same here...I used it at school, at bars, and even in the Summit around the food court area and bathrooms. It was awesome turning off all the tvs.
I had something like that as well. while the tv was on i would program it with the vcr and tv and mess with it all class....drove my teachers crazy. It was hilarious at the time.
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No they didn't. I don't blame them. http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9849168-1.html In reaction to "Gizmodogate," the gadget blog's prank of shutting down flat-screen displays on the show floor and during demos at CES (see Bloggers behaving badly), the conference's organizer, the Consumer Electronics Association, sent me this statement: We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.
It's one thing to turn off a random tv here and there, but to do it while a vendor is trying to do a presentation and sell their product is pretty weak
