My favorite thing to do is to climb into bed at 11, turn the television on, set sleep to two hours (Family Guy's on at 11:30 now, and I usually catch some late night ball game), turn off the light, and get comfortable. All that hassle could be fixed by installing a weight sensor in your mattress. If enough weight is on a certain spot in the mattress, the television turns on, light turns off, and sleep is set to a custom time. If you get off the bed, the television is turned off and light turned back on.-- Nemmy, Apr 10 2005 or you could use this http://www.cornells...product.cfm?s=7&p=1"The Clapper" [sophocles, Apr 11 2005] How do you turn the TV off if you just want to sleep?-- whippinggas, Apr 10 2005 Extended wireless button (runs on two AA batteries) on the floor. Step on it/press it down, and it turns off the sensor, but the TV stays on. Then use the remote to turn the television off. Or wait for sleep to kick in.-- Nemmy, Apr 10 2005 Sounds good.-- whippinggas, Apr 10 2005 The neighbors: "Look, Nemmy's bedroom light is turning off and on and off and on and off and on..."-- bristolz, Apr 10 2005 Was just going to say something along the same lines...-- DrCurry, Apr 10 2005 Apartment. :) No one sees.
By light, I meant that I have a small reading lamp that I usually keep on in my bedroom. It doesn't use a lot of electricity, only produces light on my bed (so even if my neighbors could see, they wouldnt see the light going on and off), and is pretty compact.-- Nemmy, Apr 10 2005 Nice one [bristolz]
I like this. I hate having to turn off my light once I'm done reading.-- finrod, Apr 11 2005 [longshot9999]...good idea, I'll try to do that. :D-- Nemmy, Apr 11 2005 Or, like a dieting TV that would only turn on if your weight was lower than it was the last time you watched.-- daseva, Apr 11 2005 Hey Nemmy: You deleted my "ever hear of the clapper" anno. Well, your choice. I wasn't advertising, but simply pointing out that you can get the same functionality by using the very widely baked, albeit very hokey clapper.-- sophocles, Apr 11 2005 I did? Oh, I meant to delete one of my comments that I had just posted and thought wasn't appropriate.-- Nemmy, Apr 11 2005 random, halfbakery