This may or may not be true. I’ve seen two youtube hoaxes like this.
Hoax number one: Your cell phone (or other device) can be used to unlock your car if you lose your keys.
Basically, there is a person off camera with the pushbutton key fob. When the person on camera does whatever he does with the device he’s claiming can unlock the doors, the guy off camera hits the unlock button and, presto, the doors unlock. It depends on you trusting them to be honest.
Hoax number two: You can reset the “computer” on an epson printing cartridge to get the rest of the ink that is “hidden”. They show you a printer cartridge that shows almost empty on the digital readout. They then remove the cartridge and show you a little hole in the side. They use a paperclip and shove it in the hole to “reset” the computer. Then they re-install the cartridge and, presto, it shows as full.
Problem is, that little hole is just a hole in the shape of the plastic. It doesn’t even go all the way through. It is not a reset button at all (I dissassembled a cartridge myself to prove it). What thed did was simply remove the almost empty cartridge, Push a paperclip into the “hole” in the pattern of the plastic case, then insert a new cartridge in the printer.
Both of these videos depend on you simply trusting the person presenting the video to be sincere. After all, why would they just make it up. ;-)
I don’t buy this one either, based on what I saw in the video. Not enough evidence.
Well, the TSA is certainly upset and tried to pull the video.
It’s certainly a real lawsuit he filed.
Gizmodo and others have picked this up.