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May
21

Fake TV: the continuing appearance of useless products

Posted by core77.com's design blog in ARTS, BLOGROLL, CREATIVITY, DESIGN, INTERNET, MEDIA, VISUAL

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We sincerely hope this is a gag: the Fake TV “uses an array of colored, flashing LEDs to create the illusion of the stroboscopic effect of a television,” apparently so thieves walking by will see the flickering in your window and move on to greener pastures.

Do we need this, do the numbers bear this one out? Are our lands so roaming with robbers that somewhere they had to set up a factory to crank these things out? D’you reckon this is what the inventor of LED’s had in mind? Sure, the Fake TV burns less juice than leaving the regular TV on, but where are we supposed to put this thing, in a fake entertainment console?

Hell in a handbasket, folks.

via technabob

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