CES warning: watch for people turning off TV’s

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I’ve heard that a few people will be walking around CES’s main floor with devices that’ll turn off TVs. Imagine someone wearing a hat, with an IR emitter that can be turned on and off with a switch. All your TVs will go off and you won’t know why. My suggestion? If you’re a vendor preparing for CES today (like we are at PodTech) that you cover up your IR windows (they are the little windows on the front of monitors that receive remote control signals) with tape.

78 thoughts on “CES warning: watch for people turning off TV’s”

  1. I’ve sat at Heathrow in a jam and not being from the UK none of the adverts beemed from all those TVs are even remotely relevant to me. In fact they probably aren’t of interest to about ooh lets say 99% of the people. What I’d do for a TV-B-Gone then. In fact I’m going to buy one. Not to use in a place where I choose to be like an electronic trade show or TV shop. But when I’m subjected to lame adverts at airpots, shops, the street, resurants, bars.

    Hell I’m not a green facist I just want some of my space back and the choice not to have it invaded by some marketing rubbish at me.

  2. I’ve sat at Heathrow in a jam and not being from the UK none of the adverts beemed from all those TVs are even remotely relevant to me. In fact they probably aren’t of interest to about ooh lets say 99% of the people. What I’d do for a TV-B-Gone then. In fact I’m going to buy one. Not to use in a place where I choose to be like an electronic trade show or TV shop. But when I’m subjected to lame adverts at airpots, shops, the street, resurants, bars.

    Hell I’m not a green facist I just want some of my space back and the choice not to have it invaded by some marketing rubbish at me.

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  6. My TV actually went off this morning for no reason. I have Direct TV.. Could that be why it shut off? For a second I thought my Mom didn’t pay the bill lol.. But when I woke up it was working.. Eh, I dunno..

  7. My TV actually went off this morning for no reason. I have Direct TV.. Could that be why it shut off? For a second I thought my Mom didn’t pay the bill lol.. But when I woke up it was working.. Eh, I dunno..

  10. You know, the International Spy Museum sells watches that act as remote controls that can turn off almost all TVs (and change volume, channel, and so on). If anybody wants to be a prankster I think they also sell the watches on amazon or ebay.

  11. You know, the International Spy Museum sells watches that act as remote controls that can turn off almost all TVs (and change volume, channel, and so on). If anybody wants to be a prankster I think they also sell the watches on amazon or ebay.

  12. @33. Somehow I don’ think turning off devices at the CES conference rises to the level of disruption you describe at Maplin and Heathrow. Will it be annoying for the exhibitors? Clearly. Will it have a dramatic effect on travel or commerce? I think not.

  13. @33. Somehow I don’ think turning off devices at the CES conference rises to the level of disruption you describe at Maplin and Heathrow. Will it be annoying for the exhibitors? Clearly. Will it have a dramatic effect on travel or commerce? I think not.

  14. The green-fascists turn entire new-road schemes off in UK, via decade-long protest-and-appeal delays until the finance is no longer available.

    They turned off Maplin new airport, then London Heathrow fourth runway, so fog (which slows traffic by at least half because of safe-spacing needs in non-visual conditions) recently meant days of delay for pre-Christmas passengers.

    It is imperative that one of you good-side-geeks invents a device to identify these walk-thru turning-off-TVs subversives, so that the invigilator can unobtrusively get close for a retaliatory zap of some hi-tech sort (of which I myself know nought).

    Cy Quick at mydigest.wordpress.com

  15. The green-fascists turn entire new-road schemes off in UK, via decade-long protest-and-appeal delays until the finance is no longer available.

    They turned off Maplin new airport, then London Heathrow fourth runway, so fog (which slows traffic by at least half because of safe-spacing needs in non-visual conditions) recently meant days of delay for pre-Christmas passengers.

    It is imperative that one of you good-side-geeks invents a device to identify these walk-thru turning-off-TVs subversives, so that the invigilator can unobtrusively get close for a retaliatory zap of some hi-tech sort (of which I myself know nought).

    Cy Quick at mydigest.wordpress.com

  18. Oh i dunno, watching some prat try to get money out of a teen could be funny…

    “Your honor he turned our TVs OFF OMGWTFKHAAAAAN!!!111″

    “Counselor, instead of suing him, you should be figuring out how you got a teen to turn a TV *off* at all. You could make millions from parents worldwide. In the meantime, grow up?”

  19. Oh i dunno, watching some prat try to get money out of a teen could be funny…

    “Your honor he turned our TVs OFF OMGWTFKHAAAAAN!!!111″

    “Counselor, instead of suing him, you should be figuring out how you got a teen to turn a TV *off* at all. You could make millions from parents worldwide. In the meantime, grow up?”

  20. I would like one of these at home to use w/ my 8-year-old who would watch TV nonstop if I let her.

  21. I would like one of these at home to use w/ my 8-year-old who would watch TV nonstop if I let her.

  22. Benny, Scoble has a habit of not defining things that he blogs about… you’ll just have to live with it.

    Sometimes I feel like I’m an outcast because I live in Detroit and don’t know half the people or things that he mentions.

    Example, that dude who got married. It took me 2 weeks to realize he was the blaugh.com guy.

  23. Benny, Scoble has a habit of not defining things that he blogs about… you’ll just have to live with it.

    Sometimes I feel like I’m an outcast because I live in Detroit and don’t know half the people or things that he mentions.

    Example, that dude who got married. It took me 2 weeks to realize he was the blaugh.com guy.

  24. I think this is pretty funny, actually. Their own technology turned against them. And the way to solve it is not with technology.

  25. I think this is pretty funny, actually. Their own technology turned against them. And the way to solve it is not with technology.

  26. A friend of mine got thrown out of a stereo shop once for standing waaaaaaaaay back from the wall of stereos and hitting Eject over and over. Half would open, half would close. It doesn’t take much to entertain that guy.

    I love Phil’s advice to sue for damages. Some kid playing a prank turns off your tv and your response is to sue him. Sweet, this is the kind of thing that gives corporations a bad name.

  27. A friend of mine got thrown out of a stereo shop once for standing waaaaaaaaay back from the wall of stereos and hitting Eject over and over. Half would open, half would close. It doesn’t take much to entertain that guy.

    I love Phil’s advice to sue for damages. Some kid playing a prank turns off your tv and your response is to sue him. Sweet, this is the kind of thing that gives corporations a bad name.

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