Turn off all the tvs!

Turn off all the tvs! #television

🕖︎ - 2004-10-19

"The European model, which uses different codes from the American-Asian one, was field-tested at EuroDisney, where anti-TV activist and computer programmer David Burke was waiting with his 6-year-old daughter to get on a ride called Honey I Shrunk the Kids. A wall of TVs in the waiting room showed a loop of constant Kodak ads. Burke had prototypes in his bag and made a bank of screens go off with one click."

- Wired:Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark

🕖︎ - 2004-10-19 - 0 comments

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