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"featuring the blogger walking through the CES floor using a TV-B-Gone kind of device to shut off television displays throughout the convention." Wow, that's l
by techiferous 16y ago
"featuring the blogger walking through the CES floor using a TV-B-Gone kind of device to shut off television displays throughout the convention."
Wow, that's low. Really low. Gizmodo definitely shows its true colors: make money/traffic at any cost, even if it means sabotaging the hard work of others. (They were cutting off TVs during people's presentations.)
- wallflower 16y agoI met the Tv-b-gone inventor, Mitch, and he said he sold $20,000 more product as a direct result of that incident. He said he did't like what they did with the Tv-b-gone at CES.
- aw3c2 16y agoOf course he said that. Still I am certain he enjoyed selling that much as a direct result.
- andreyf 16y agoTech is not a zero-sum-game. Creating wealth while destroying other's hard work is not very nice, especially in tech industry, where opportunities at simply creating without destroying are so readily available.
- gcheong 16y agoOff-topic, but apparently he also runs a Circuit Hacking Monday group at the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Mondays https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Mondays