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Most (perhaps all) cable and satellite tv systems require
several pieces of equipment be set on certain channels and
settings to allow their signal to be displayed on the monitor.
Any child over 4
months-of-age is delighted by the prospect of turning your
tv in
to a potted plant holder
while you try desperately to figure
out which button they touched rendered your system
unusable.
This dance can take hours... and if you're over 65, it may
require an in-home service call to remedy. How about a
"child
button" on the remote that locks it where you left it until
you select the child button once more to disarm the lock.
Sure, some kid may unlock it, but that problem is about
5000
times less likely to happen than that same youngster reeking
havoc with an unlocked remote!
Magna-Trigger
http://www.tarnhelm.../writerscorner.html
[half, Oct 04 2004]
Adult Grip for Childproof Remotes
http://www.halfbake...hildproof_20Remotes
Unashamed self promotion. [st3f, Oct 04 2004]
[link]
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Conceptually good, as long as it's not adult-proof. I locked my handphone once. I had to throw it away. |
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Y'know, my buddy lets his son use the remote as a toy phone. It's cheaper than a phone, especially when dialing Fiji and the child knows no difference. |
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Take the batteries out. Or tie the kid's thumbs together. |
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You can get small cable ties from radio-shack. A determined kid can probably chew through these, so you need to keep his hands behind his back. |
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Simply build some fingerprinting or retina scanning device into the remote. |
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Shelves are good. Keep things on shelves. Shelves. |
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//Keep things on shelves// Such as the kids? |
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No, they stay in the cupboards, keeping the shelf-space free for knick-knacks and bric-a-brac. |
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Adapt the "Magna-Trigger" saftey system to television remotes? |
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Our three year old knows exactly which buttons to press on which remote to get what she wants. She also knows that if she presses the wrong buttons the TV becomes "broken" and she can't watch what she wants. She also knows to put the remote out of the baby's reach otherwise ditto. IOW, what [UB] said. |
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