David Herrold

TV-B-Gone wreaks havok at CES

Posted by Dave | Filed under Hardware, Technology

The good folks at Gizmodo got their sweaty little hands on some TV-B-Gone zappers and started turning off TVs left and right at the Consumer Electronic Show this past week.

From Gizmodo:

And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn’t help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn’t stop. (And Panasonic, you’re so lucky that 150-incher didn’t have an active IR port.) It was too much fun, but watching this video, we realize it probably made some people’s jobs harder, and I don’t agree with that (Especially Motorola). We’re sorry.

Click here for the fantastic video of TVs mysteriously being turned off.