TV-B-Gone

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by aww_dang • 5 years ago

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Lammy• 5 years ago

I used to do this in the early 2000s with my Palm PDA's IR blaster http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA005810/remocon/premocce.htm

generj• 5 years ago

Me too!

My dad gave me an old PalmPilot when I was in middle school and as a punk kid I would do things like mute the TV for 5 seconds during in-class videos.

mPReDiToR• 5 years ago

UK superstore Tesco had TV's with adverts a few years back. I used to walk round the store with my WindowsMobile devices with IR and turn them off.

Always hated advertosing.

Arnt• 5 years ago

A FOAF connected a TV-b-gone to an array of high-power LEDs, enough to turn off all the TVs in a large shop from inside a canvas bag outside the entrance.

This, I think: https://www.timeexpander.com/img/extender2.jpg

I would have liked to borrow that and go for a walk ;)

kej• 5 years ago

The Flipper Zero is this idea on steroids: https://flipperzero.one/

mattl• 5 years ago

https://youtu.be/ICpM3ItIhI0

scamper2• 5 years ago

Still have mine. Used it a handful of times. Mostly worked! I wish they had a similar device to eradicate music from restaurants and cafes.

atatatat• 5 years ago

Headphones (noise canceling, even!).

scamper2• 5 years ago

I was going to say that it was sometimes hard to hold a conversation over the music, but two people with noise-canceling earbuds would definitely up the difficulty. (Or we could just call each other.) ;)

TV-B-Gone

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