CES has no shortage of displays. 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. [Thanks to Phil Torrone for the gear, video, editing and mischief by Richard Blakeley]
Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES
Jan 10, ’08
8:57 PM
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6 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.My wife must be wondering why an evil cackle is coming from my home office. Bwahahaha!
Part of me is laughing, but a larger part of me that is sometimes responsible for running large numbers of screens at corporate events is angry. The agony!
I don’t know if they still make them, but I used to have a cool casio wristwatch that would turn tv’s off and on, change the channel, and turn the volume up or down. Turning the tv’s off as they did in this video is fun, but it was even more fun to find a public tv, like one in an electronics store, in a lobby, or especially in a bar, and then very slowly turn the volume up until it was blaring. Now THAT’S entertainment at its finest.
I have been tempted to do some of the mods they’ve done on Make – boost the power or stealth it into another object.
Sounds like vandalism to me. People/Companies invested considerable amounts to promote their products via those screens. Gizmodo’s a bunch of pimholes.
They do these presentations many times a day. I don’t think anybody is going to lose the farm because one of them was hacked.
Sheesh.