Neat Tech Gadgets
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Technology is great until it becomes a pain in the you-know-what. But then someone inevitably comes up with a solution for the pain in the you-know-what and technology is fun again. Here are a couple of really cool items we’d love to get our hands on - a keychain remote that allows the user to turn off noisy TVs in various places such as bars etc and a cell phone jammer.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A lot of people love television but apparently some people have had enough of it, too. A new keychain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs — anywhere from airports to restaurants — is selling at a faster clip than it would take most people to surf the channels on their boob tubes.”I thought there would just be a trickle, but we are swamped,” the inventor, Mitch Altman of San Francisco, said Monday in an interview. “I didn’t know there were so many people who were into turning TV off.”
Hundreds of orders for Altman’s $14.99 TV-B-Gone gadget poured in Monday after the tiny remote control was announced in Wired magazine and other online media outlets. At times, the unexpected attention overloaded and crashed the Web site of his company, Cornfield Electronics.
And this…
MEXICO CITY — Fed up with cellphones ringing during Mass, four Catholic churches in Monterrey, Mexico, are taking extreme measures to silence them.They are illegally jamming cellphone signals with Israeli-made transmitters, the kind used to protect embassies and presidential motorcades from bugs and bombs detonated by phone.
“These devices have solved a very big problem for us,” said Gloria Cardenas Aguero, secretary at the Rosario church. “This time in church belongs to God, and you should respect it.”
O man, could I make use of those goodies.
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