enthalpy

Tuesday, October 19, 2004


Here's an idea whose time has come. Now, you can turn off any TV with a single button.
Altman's key-chain fob was a TV-B-Gone, a new universal remote that turns off almost any television. The device, which looks like an automobile remote, has just one button. When activated, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off televisions, the most popular brands first.

For Altman, founder of Silicon Valley data-storage maker 3ware, the TV-B-Gone is all about freeing people from the attention-sapping hold of omnipresent television programming. The device is also providing hours of entertainment for its inventor.
Just as I would, if I had one. The web site for the device is dead now, no doubt due to the response of the Wired article. But I'm still gonna have to buy two.



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