Inventor Open Sources "TV-B-Gone," and Why 340
ptorrone writes "Inventor Mitch Altman explains why he open-sourced his TV-B-Gone kit, the original stealth keychain fob for defeating TVs in public places. The title of the article is 'Patent-B-Gone' and perhaps the most interesting fact is that Mitch's brother is a patent attorney, but he still decided to release an open source hardware version of the TV-B-Gone, with pretty impressive results."
I for one (Score:2, Funny)
Would be most happy to be owning an election-B-gone. Also, frist past the post!
A Necessary Addition (Score:5, Funny)
So many offensive television sets in inappropriate places...so little time.
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
I am officially open sourcing my firstpost-B-gone
So glad this was posted (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:4, Funny)
OK, enlighten me. Are you bombarded by TV in public libraries and during funerals, or are you simply irked when a bar-owner decides to show a football game on his TV in his bar?
Me, I carry my Customer-B-Gone, a pair of legs that allow me to absent myself from bars and other public places for a variety of reasons, without imposing my will upon others. Oh sure, it's not nearly as obnoxious as deciding for everybody, but we can't all be petty dictators.
We can't all spot sarcasm, either.
(This is sarcasm, what that guy posted was deadly serious).
(Hey, no wait!, don't listen to that sentence, that was the real sarcasm).
Re:I would love to take this to a sports bar. (Score:5, Funny)
Someone did this during the World Cup (Video [vincentchow.net]). He's lucky he didn't get caught and lynched.
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:5, Funny)
The Deaf.
You can go now.
Television... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:purpose? (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, it's for getting your face punched. ;)
Hah. I've been managing that for years without the aid of technology.
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:5, Funny)
UGH! Coffee not working yet.
That should have been THE BLIND!
I'll go now...
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:5, Funny)
bwa ha ha.... my Coffee-B-Gone works!
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:5, Funny)
bwa ha ha.... my Coffee-B-Gone works!
OK, now THAT little device is definately going to lead to bloodshed. :)
Re:purpose? (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, it's for getting your face punched. ;)
Hah. I've been managing that for years without the aid of technology.
Luddite.
Re:Well done, sir. (Score:1, Funny)
But seriously, Frenchy, what gives you the right to enforce your will upon others.
Coming from an American... oh delicious irony.
Re:Having stopped watching tv for a while (Score:2, Funny)
This focus-on-movement could be evolutionary be explained because a) you might eat what moves; b) it might eat you; c) it might be an interesting sex partner (in which case you might eat it and/or it might eat you).
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:2, Funny)
They have that. It's called "black spray paint".
Re:Brilliant! (Score:0, Funny)
You're an elitist ass. I'm not going to get in a pissing match about which of us is smarter, but statistically speaking there's a high probability you'd come out on the low end of that one.
HA HA! Good one! You are so clever. I wish everyone on slashdot were more like you.
Re:Having stopped watching tv for a while (Score:2, Funny)
So what would you achieve? The employee having to get up and turn a TV back on? Brilliant! :)
That's genius! You've saved the American economy by creating new jobs!
Re:or cellphone-B-Gone (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, you'll be wanting the twat-B-Gone. Otherwise known as a spiked mace.
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
7,329 people died today while browsing the Internet. Sources inside the Interpol state that all of them were reading a tech news site called "slash-dot", and that their brains exploded without apparent reason.
Re:A Necessary Addition (Score:2, Funny)
... he was a bitch to live with as a puppy...
Probably due to the good animal's gender confusion!