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Why don’t you just switch off and read Backbytes?

While we’re on the subject of Christmas presents, we’re sorry to be late in spotting this autumn’s new must-have device, the
TV-B-Gone.
Created by inventor Mitch Altman, it sells for just £9, and acts as a universal remote – that simply turns off nearly every TV.
Requests for it have threatened to crash his web site. ‘I thought there would just be a trickle, but we are swamped,’ he says.
It works by simply sending about 200 infra red codes that will turn most TVs off (and on again, don’t panic).
‘There’s just so little time in all of our lives,’ says the inventor, which only leaves us to say, thank you for spending so much of it reading Backbytes. It’s so much better for you than watching TV.

October 27, 2004 in backbytes | Permalink

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