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January 21, 2008
An invention I'd like to see
Now that my default setting for TV commercials is to mute the sound and close my eyes, I'm struck by how pleasant it can be to take these mini-breaks during games and whatnot.
The one thing I still find annoying is to open my eyes prematurely, i.e., with a commercial still on.
What I'd like: a built-in timer in the TV remote that chimes softly every 30 seconds once I've pressed the mute button.
That way I could take a look only when a commercial ends.
Of course, the mute timer function would have an on/off switch so that watching with the sound off wouldn't become annoying.
January 21, 2008 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
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That has got to be the height of something. I haven't figured out exactly what yet.
It kind of makes me think of when I was a teenager and I had been crusading for years to have a little TV in my room so I could lay in bed and watch Carson until one o'clock in the morning. (Yeah, on school nights. My parents realized that Carson watching was part of my education.) One day they got a new one for their bedroom and let me have the old rickety one, which just barely got a watchable b&w picture. I decided it was too damn much trouble to have to get up out of bed to turn it on and off or change channels, so I rigged up a string to the pull-on knob, and a great big long stick (a piece of bamboo from a yard torch) to push the knob in to turn it off with, with a little doo-hickey attachment that could grab the knob so I could twist it to change channels.
Oh brave new world.
Posted by: Flautist | Jan 21, 2008 3:06:35 PM
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