TV-B-Gone tampon case

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2008/01/11 @ 2:30 am
Category Electronics, Open Source Hardware

I had some extra real estate in my tampon case, so I assembled my new TV-B-Gone kit inside. I pulled out the button and aimed it slightly downward, so it can be activated by items on a table like the base of a wine glass or silverware, for going incognito in a restaurant. – Link.

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12 Responses to TV-B-Gone tampon case

Anonymous on January 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am said:

I sincerely hope your TV-B-Gone is made of RoHS compliant components… Please look it up for your own safety.

Great idea although.

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Bob on January 11th, 2008 at 10:13 am said:

Nothing says “incognito” better than “tampon case on the restaurant table.”

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StarCrap on January 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am said:

Ewwww!

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BdgBill on January 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm said:

Ok, I like gadgets and projects but I just don’t gett the TVbGone.

It seems pretty arrogant to say “I don’t like tv so I will deactivate every one that I get near.” Presumably, people are watching these tv’s.

Where are the tv’s that are being turned off? Airports? Bars? Hospital waiting rooms? If so the people using this device are total jerks.

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eh on January 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pm said:

1. is putting some random project in a tampon case really new and innovative enough for anyone to care about?

2. is there a machine that deactivates all these annoying people with tv-b-gones? i’m just asking because they have started to annoy me a lot more than televisions.

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firearms on January 11th, 2008 at 4:54 pm said:

2. is there a machine that deactivates all these annoying people with tv-b-gones? i’m just asking because they have started to annoy me a lot more than televisions.

isnt that called a gun?

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Mubo on January 11th, 2008 at 6:09 pm said:

thank the maker, im not the only one who finds the TV-B-GONE to be useless at best!

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JPm on January 11th, 2008 at 10:13 pm said:

On a related note, some guy from Gizmodo got banned from CES at Las Vegas because he was disrupting presentations
[http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9849168-7.html] I bet posting his feats on Youtube didn’t help [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpM3ItIhI0]

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flatiron on January 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm said:

Why stop at TV-B-GONE, how about CAR-DVD-B-GONE?

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TV-B-There on January 12th, 2008 at 7:53 am said:

I also wanted to say that people using these devices have to be major assholes. Especially when they have to hide the devices in an iPod or a tampon case so as to avoid all responsibility of taking someone’s entertainment away from them.

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jimbo on January 13th, 2008 at 4:30 am said:

you dont need 4wires for the switch…
pick any two diagonally will do.

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volkemon on January 16th, 2008 at 11:57 am said:

@flatiron-

Research continues on the car-radio-be-gone. Family concerns are slowing process….

car-dvd-be-gone would be related I suppose…..

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