Posted on 09/09/2011 4:36:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CNN) -- When Matt Richardson works from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., he likes to keeps the TV on to stay informed, but some celebrity or another is always taking up airtime and bugging him.
"A while ago it was Charlie Sheen. And then it was Sarah Palin. And then it was Donald Trump," said Richardson, who is a video producer for Make Magazine. "And after a while I realized there's sort of always someone who I don't really want to hear about."
Like any good hacker, Richardson decided to come up with a fix: He developed a do-it-yourself TV remote control that will automatically mute the television when certain celebrity names are mentioned.
He plans to debut and explain the hack at the upcoming Maker Faire event in New York. The name of his talk is "Enough Already: Silencing Celebs with Arduino."
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Don’t know, but he sounds pretty shallow and trite. He could stand to listen to a lot less TV and the worthless distractions of TV, sports, the celebrimedia and the drive-by media.
A good dose of Sarah Palin is probably just what he needs.
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Yeah, does it work?
Typical of a liberal child to want to cover his ears when the truth is spoken to them
Let me know when that works. OK?
The commie needs to keep it tuned to MSNBC and he’ll be all set.
What’s a snooki?
Years ago someone came up with a gadget that supposedly deleted commercials from video tapes. It didn’t work.
My sentiments exactly. I’ve heard the name “Snooki,” but I have no idea (and less interest) in exploring this. Now if he could develop one that muted Geraldo Rivera, any demonrat from Hussein on down and Lady Gaga, put me down for one.
Matt sounds like the type of dip$hit who would spend 5 years automation a simple function that only takes a few seconds to do manually.
If he could develop a working wife mute he could make billions.
A Snooki is a particular individual of the subspecies GUIDO, of the species BENNY, large numbers of which invade and occupy the New Jersey Shore, typically from mid-May to early September.
They create traffic problems and behave unpredictably, but we love ‘em anyway; they spend MONEY!
This sounds trivial but is actually pretty cool. Arduino is an open source hardware/software platform that allows people to create and share arbitrary devices that might not get enough attention to be worth developing commercially. Think assist devices for the blind, like laser walking sticks and “tactile eyes”. Arduino is to hardware development what Linux is to software.
You don't want to know. I've had the misfortune (though without seeking it out either). Google "Jersey Shore" if your morbid curiosity gets the better of you.
Now if he could develop one that muted Geraldo Rivera, any demonrat from Hussein on down and Lady Gaga, put me down for one.
Heck, if you can develop THAT, all new sets need to come with it preinstalled. Might even up the media treatment of Dems vs. normal people.
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