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Channel-switcher torments couch potatoes

9 March 2005

Don’t you just hate it when someone hogs the TV remote control and changes channels all the time?

Just $15 will buy the perfect revenge weapon – the couch potato tormentor. The gadget, the size of a cellphone, first has to be taught the command code that makes your TV set change channels. You do this by pointing it at the set’s remote control while you change the channel. Pressing a “store” button holds the code in the device’s memory. Then, when hidden in the same room as the TV, the tormentor sends out random channel change commands every few minutes. So the TV seems to have…

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