Last summer, my roommate had a website for “do it yourself” lifestyle projects, DIYHAPPY.COM. He was invited out to Oreilly Media’s publication Make Magazine’s Maker Faire (yes they spell it like that). I tagged along and had a great time hanging out, and enjoyed looking at all the home-made and D.I.Y. projects which so many people had devoted a lot of time and money to.
One of my favorite places at the Maker Faire was the surprisingly store. Make Magazine’s best of the best projects had something to sell there, including some Do It Yourself kits for various popular projects. I bought an LED based kit called a “Mini POV”. The only other project I really wanted, was a TV B Gone kit that helps you build an infra-red TV remote with one function: Turning off all TV’s in a full infra red spectrum (able to turn off pretty much any and all TV’s that uses an IR remote). This awesome little guy is small- and can be hidden in your hat or…. beard if you so please. Regardless, it could be turned into quite the annoying business disruption device if some evil prankster decided to use it at let say… CES? The one place hundreds of booths and company displays s rely heavily on their TV’s to help convey their business/products/services.
Enter Gizmodo. Get over to see the video while it’s hot, but the Gizmodo CES 2008 TV Prank is one hilarious way of keeping yourself entertained while walking around the mass conference center conglomeration that the Consumer Electronic Show has become. Gizmodo video recorded themselves pulling this prank on various booths, and the video can be seen on their website at the post which I linked to above. I say get it while it’s hot- because if I can imagine that if any of these disgruntled companies catch wind- they very well might take legal action considering the investment they potentially lost. Let’s also not forget that CES is somewhat- a mass display and distribution of electronics companies products: Lots of TV’s to promote and lots of TV’s used to prmote - pretty much anyones who’s mass line of TV’s gets turned off randomly, then looses credibility pretty quick. It’s an Electronics industry trade show, when the electronics malfunction…… it was probably Gizmodo.
Side Note: I really considered going this year to C.E.S.- but ran into one major drawback; how unbelievably sick I got from going from booth to booth and seeing mass horde’s of iPod Accessory companies. Everyone; their dog; and their dog’s previous owner’s best friends aunt started an iPod accessory company and got a booth at CES in the hopes to stand out and offer something new. “But we’re different than the other guys” like every MLM up and down I-15 in Utah county says. Stupid “reverse funnel” system is still a pyramid scheme.
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