SAN JOSE, CALIF. - A keychain device that enables people to turn off TVs just about anywhere is flying off the shelves, its inventor says.
Cornfield Electronics, which makes the device, is rebuilding its website because of the rush of orders.
The TV-B-Gone ($14.99 US) remote control was made public Monday in Wired magazine and on the web.
"I thought there would just be a trickle, but we are swamped," the inventor, Mitch Altman of San Francisco, told the Associated Press. "I didn't know there were so many people who were into turning TV off."
The device, an on-off switch, works on about 1,000 TV models, offering users relief from unwanted pictures and noise in airports, restaurants and bars.
It's like a universal remote control programmed to run through about 200 infrared codes that turn TVs on or off.
Aim the device, push the button and most TVs will go off.
Altman, an electrical engineer, says he tested the device all over the world and most people didn't react when the TV went off.
He doesn't like television and doesn't own one.
Posted by thinkum at October 22, 2004 03:51 PMIn the domain of political economy, free scientific inquiry does not merely meet the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with summons to the fray on the opposing side the most violent, sordid and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The Established church, for instance, will more readily pardon an attack on thirty-eight of its thirty-nine articles than on one thirty-ninth of its income. by online poker
Posted by: free online poker at December 28, 2004 08:27 AMpoker tournaments - online poker sites, empirepoker | poker games - poker chips, poker books | online poker - poker rooms, poker online | partypoker - poker games, internet poker | world poker tour - free online poker, paradise poker | online poker rooms - online poker, texas hold'em | poker books - empire poker, poker tournaments | texas holdem poker - online poker sites, online poker sites | poker rules - poker books, poker books | texas holdem poker - online poker rooms, empirepoker | pacific poker - WPT, poker supplies | poker supplies - texas hold'em, poker chips | poker - wsop, wsop | online poker rooms - poker rooms, partypoker | empire poker - world series of poker, poker online | partypoker - texas holdem poker, WPT | poker tables - poker tables, pacific poker | texas hold'em - empirepoker, wsop
Posted by: online poker rooms at February 17, 2005 01:05 PM