Gizmodo messes up CES 2008 with TV-B-Gone

[CrocStock]

This event must have been soulless, and this device must have made things at least a little interesting. I bet this stunt was easily worth the price.

[therealarthurdent]

I built one of these and they're AWESOME. Every electronics department in town has felt my wrath.

[dr34m3r2k]

Pretty funny.

[alf6789]

I don't care what the haters say, this is hysterical. I just got mine 2 days ago and will soon wreck havoc just like this. Last night at a casino, I shut off the giant tv hooked up to The Dark Knight slot machine. Way too funny.

[Ha1frican]

wow unreliable as news providers AND assholes at conventions

[AlbinoGhandi]

this is hilarious

[etoangfavoriteko]

You, sir, are a BADASS

[justinpiu]

How did you modify the range?

[SOUNDWAVE643]

Not cool.

[motocross9258]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHHA

[86Ivar]

LOLOLOLO

[ThePhoneUpdate]

On here it looks extremely funny, but if I was one of those presenters well... :)

[year2kill2010]

lol Shitty

[HappyDiscoDeath]

if you're merely watching the video solely to rip on Gizmodo, then you're really no better than you say they are. dick move. shut up, quit watching, and hit the "back" button. as simple as pranking CES with the ultimate universal remote.

[kirbypufball]

@HappyDiscoDeath uuuhhhh wut

[MegaMan6947]

Hilarious.

[Retallacka64]

Fuck they are cunts

[wadad17]

After the presentators screen got shut off, he lost his buyers, got fired, came home found his wife cheating on him, got divorced, lost the house, the car, the kids, and the dog, and was forced to live with his mom who died in her sleep 3 days later. Now he has 2 weeks to come up with the money to keep the house from being forclosed on, and how is he gonna do that?

"Im here to Reposes your Your toaster Oven" *Punched out by a black man*

Rob Snyder is "Repoman"

.... What was i talking about?

[ssstonnn]

@CaptainCrunchityzer TRUE DAT!

[solverh]

This underlines that a connection for standard closed circuit remote control accessory for monitors is a must for presentation and sports bars.

[Blitzerjunge]

1:30 one,two,three,go,FAIL (+ really retarted movement)

[FearInflictor]

trololololololol



[DESTROYriaa]

more people need to do this, tv is such crap.

[tomononocon]

@DESTROYriaa Wow you are such an asshole, keep sucking that Gizmodo dick!

[xXDaFtxZoMbIeXx]

i'm bringing one to E3 =]

[crckdns]

have done that already on the GamesCom and GamesConvention before with self-made multi-IR-controller working almost the same way but better and faster :) a lot of fun..

[Guineapig300n60]

wow you are assholes i feel sorry for that guy

[DarkWARior768]

How does gizmodo exist? All I ever hear is how they are fucking assholes who do asshole things for the sake of being assholes.

[LukeVsShark]

Assholes.com

[Fallout3Dog]

Wow Gizmodo, you're sooo funny! But really, you're cunts

[xxxXxxx255]

Oh Gizmodo is SOOOO funny, ruining people's jobs that they depend on to get money! Fucking assholes

[supaflyjohnson]

Fuck Gizmodo

[darkraven1414]

What piece of fucking ass cheese

[BLANKNOTING]

You Go To Jail??

Serousy??

Don't Play That..

That Fine Pay $2000.00..

You Understood That!!

Yes/No

Say Sorry...

Clear??

[brainiac554]

@BLANKNOTING Was that english? And btw it wasn't the uploader's prank....

[Membrane556]

Ok I'm making one of these.

[scannerman85]

Go Gizmodo! That's too funny!

[flyingfireguy]

ou such a bastard

[monkey3171]

thats fucking stupid of them to do it at an event like that. its funny if your round a mates house and it means nothing but to fuck up someones presentation and things like that is just to far.

[RedRobot2006]

oh damn , i will order one right now...i guess...awwww yeah !

[Robstailey]

gizmodo are such unprofessional faggots engadget or whatever is better. well they can't be worse i guess.

[TheJamez347]

@Robstailey Funny thing is when they do this kinda shit it leads to publicity which leads to more views and more money, I think it's a great marketing ploy.

[ShadowCatNZ]

Fucking douchebags

[deryell]

Dickheads

[beemaster69]

luckily my tv only has dials and is in black and white

[instaimagehost]

do that at the horse track :D

[ManaTheRsPwner]

Haha that dude on Guitar Hero must have been so pissed xD

[mynextchannel]

LMAO!!!

[Petriealright]

that's sooo mean XD

[JiuJitsuJockey]

Fucking Gizmodo....Gizmodo is such a piece of horse shit! oh yeah:DRUNK TANK (JACK IS FAT!)

[joyange1]

You do realize that there is a very easy countermeasure for this type of attack. All you have to do is take a piece of black electrical tape and put it over the IR sensor of the TV. Of course, That means you won't be able to use your remote to control the TV.

[18yearsofdrunk]

what fucking ass holes

[MonkeyFCoconut]

So evil, and they let you back in the next year?  heh... funny stuff.

[mrqueticoman]

i want to be an asshole! are they hiring??

[suckithardnfast]

lol its funny how they think its the picture when all they have to do is turn it back on.

[skulltaker1260]

@Randomperson107 Gizmodo are known for being the biggest cocksuckers around, they showed this when that dick Brian Lam showed no respect for the press swag bag he got from microsoft for halo 3 back in 2007 when he first unboxed it and threw everything over his shoulder and then about a week later when he gave an apology about it and dropped it all from his 2nd storey apartment and gave away the rumoured ending of halo 3. I'm just glad Jason Chen got raided by the police for the iphone 4 incident

[Josh350]

full of win. haha!

[Randomperson107]

So basically gizmodo thinks they can ruin presentations that are really important to the companies and the presenters just because they have a device that can do that. cocksuckers

[airsoft2xtreme]

bunch of fucking assholes

[drwierd]

I CANNOT wait to own one! what a beautiful device!

[FalconPunchTheFail]

Fake and gay

[zailin1957]

I fucking hate gizmodo.

[ShadowCatNZ]

i hate gizmodo so much

[adonian]

dude, I gotta get me one of those, that was evil... funny as hell too.

[Mercurious1994]

Guys Pleaseee how in the fuckin' world do u know that they are gizmodo ??? howww ?? it could be anyone

[Pivotmakerman]

@Mercurious1994 go on their website

[vexer117]

gizmodo is a group of fags

[Xbizkitl]

Juvenile pricks.

[thisisonps3]

best prank

[NHavocJ]

This is a dick move. They deserve to be banned.

[biologyfuckyeah]

i have a tv-b-gone too, didn't get to use it outside yet tho

gonna save that for the next soccer championship when someone's about to score LULZ

[dredis01]

ok thats fucking retarded those were presentations that people get paid to do why the fuck would you do that gizmotos a dick

[mrqueticoman]

shit heads

[SWHalo2]

what a bunch of cunts.

[Narudude360]

And to believe you can buy these on pocket change.

[killermantis2547]

Gizmodo=Trolls

Drunk tank

[xyling]

This pretty much confirms that the difference between media and bloggers.

[ThinkingTechnology]

Gizmodo sucks!

[shadowkunai12]

their B-S people

[squirrelbasha]

DRUNK TANK!!

[PretentiousHousefly]

I still can't believe Gizmodo did this. Grown men acting like stupid pre teens.

[shadowkunai12]

@PretentiousHousefly pretty damn sure they didn't go through puberty yet

[gaurdienshadow]

Gizmodo = complete Dick btw Drunk Tank

[starkillersmom]

thats just gay

[TrealoffDude]

DRUNK TANK!!!

[Newbs280]

Assholes...honestly why do you want to be the guy who does this

[batitombo]

Bah, what an asshole

[LewisAM37]

Oh... Also, drunk tank!!!

[LewisAM37]

Un-lol

[mikeemon44]

Wowo gizmodo is a bunch of fucking morons

[guestyunplugged]

gizmodo... fucking retarded excuse for journalists

[RobinoAB]

fucking assholes

[Brendo2345]

ha i heard about this on the drunk tank. barry was not happy with this idiot. Gizmodo has always had jackasses for staff.

[akaakashaboingboing]

@Brendo2345 Burnie. Dude. Not Barry.

[Shmeeshification]

TOO GOOD!!!

[bobbilopo]

LOL

[wallacejarred]

i would punch that guy in the face

[vxbinaca]

@wallacejarred raged

[hectbp]

haha great i just brought a mini tv uniersal controller that does the same

[ThatsIsJustCrazy]

What was that? "Wacko-Macko"?

[pat5810]

Rofl

[qhoa1385]

dang

that must be annoying

[vxbinaca]

@matthewlrutledge raged

[hellow533]

consumer electronic show got owned lol

[nemesisdog2]

lol well done on the secrecy

[TheNicholasBrothers]

Oh... thats E-V-I-L.

I was researching these things to see if I was going to buy the kit... now i'm REALLY going to!

[MaxamillonBored]

@TheNicholasBrothers by won that is built so u dont have to mess with it and just go right using it right right

[TheNicholasBrothers]

@MaxamillonBored What if I WANTED to build one, because maybe I ENJOY electronics?

[VeryNiceHighfive]

@TheNicholasBrothers

dont be a douche

[TheNicholasBrothers]

@VeryNiceHighfive How am I being a "douche"?

[MrGeorgewashere]

Drunk Tank FTW!!!

[SuperWo0t]

I just bougt 1 yesterday :DD I LOVE IT xD

[armouredhen30]

So funny lol,

But u shouldn't hav turned off all of the TVs because that could waste peoples time and ruin their enjoyment, but funny all the same

Lol ;-)

[792218005]

Jesus, why is everybody so pouty with these fucking comments? Its funny, guis. Enjoy it.

[Selbst93]

I love to do this at disney world

[Taykief]

I heard it there too, but I wasn't talking about the ones playing video games I was talking about turning off the moniters at the keynotes

[Mayo20]

@Taykief I laughed but now that I think about it, I still the think video game ones were harmless but the keynotes was a dick move.

[Taykief]

Don't be a douche, those are peoples jobs you fucking with, and during these times they sure need them. Get a life gizmado

[Dylanx928]

January 11, 2008

Fucking idiot.

[captainantlad]

what a douche, don't ruin an important meeting

[jazsta123]

Lighten up guys, hes just having a laugh

[LordBaruch]

The little contests and stuff was funny, but the presentations was too far.

[skatingfoo]

fucking dick

[RamboVital]

This is an entertainment terrorist. I hope you get sent to prison. Do you have any idea how much money people put into these things. If I was playing a game there and the tv went out and I found out who did it. I would make it my personal mission to make that guys life for the next year a personal hell for him.

[kovorkhan]

Thankfully the gamers in the vids were on PCs and monitors aren't affected.

What a tool

[braveTOMINATOR]

Holy shit...

Don't mess with RamboVital during his TV time!

[Dylanx928]

By doing what? Sitting on him with your video game raged fat ass?

[RamboVital]

It doesn't matter what the person was turning off, moniters to video games or moniters to a presentation. What this person was doing was wrong. I also can't care what you call me. And if you are asking what I would do. I would take him down seeing that he is costing people time, money and likely thier jobs. And also, I wasn't talking about my game moniter either. Any moniters in my general view point going out and I would find out what is going on. And yes, I would walk away from my game.

[Dylanx928]

Stop it. You're an idiot.

[DrBubbaa]

what a cocksucker.

[McStabYou]

Was that fatal1ty at 0:21?

[fireymage]

asshole why would someone do this ppl make thier livelihood off of this

[FireStorm821]

u heard about this on drunk tank didnt u

[Blu3Canti]

yea, RT FTW!

[fireymage1]

yes, yes i did

and proud of it!

[marrifan101]

I did too, lol

go Rooster Teeth!

[bonzaiyakuza]

Its kindof funny but to do this in an important meeting thats js really gay...

[smeatar]

it is funny but doing this makes you a dick. i have always covered up the IR reciever when doing a presentation and this totaly justifies my paranoia

[michaelwidmer12]

does it also works with projectors and beamers? :D♠

[polypolyman]

too bad the general masses know about that now - it only works once in a massively public forum...

[MICmasterstorm]

Oh man i want one so fucking badly i have a few things i would do with one (like becoming the terror of the town( i would try to conceal it in an old nintendo ds i have thats busted the fuck up), and shut down tv's that are on mtv's channel (thats for destroying hip hop).

[hogarth3]

i wonder what the range is. Like try shutting down a jumbo tron at a game. That would be hilarious.

[Aqualeader5]

LOL every prankster would want one

[ccmatthews0]

alright

[GeneralCuster14]

It looks cool, but it seems that if a prankster got a hold of such a thing, TV's would start shutting down all over the city they're in, lol.

Just kidding, it's a cool idea, but a little annoying when in the hands of a prankster.

[foobartender]

really bad use of such a device. anti social and destructive.

such a device should be used for restaurants or bars with very loud irritating crap on the TV where no1 is interested in it :)

[wisteela]

Brilliant.

[Kanakotka]

True, but technologically speaking, it's quite the amazing thing, concidering this device doesn't do simple signal jamming, it actually shuts down the television. But doing such a trick of actually teasing people with a device like that is just stupidity.

[Heraclio]

"Scotch" is a brand name of tape, not the proper name for transparent or translucent tape. Scotch also makes masking tape which is not clear.

[sightlab]

True but culturally wrong. Photostats are usually Xeroxes, I blow my nose on Kleenexes & most of my relatives drink coke even if its sprite or root beer. And Scotch tape is usually clear. It isn't correct, but you' re just screeching into the wind. Besides, Scotch doesn't make masking tape. 3M makes Scotch Masking Tape.

[Heraclio]

Ah-ha! I was going to point all those other things out as well, but I didn't, for fear of being irrelevant. You have my respect.

And as for Scotch being the brand but not the manufacturer...

Touché!

[Hemingray]

Best ever.

[John23476489]

That's mean.

Well, next year they'll invest in little pieces of scotch tape to block the IR receptors of the tvs.

[GSMSoSV]

You know scotch tape is usually clear, right?

[Xonegod]

Thats why they got banned from CES, and well deserved in my opinion. Who can possibly take this guys seriously when they pull stunts like this. Should have gotten banned from the internets, if it wasnt for the fact that its only them and Engadget who are true Tech news. With out them there would be no competition.

..X..

[styfle123]

They deserved the ban but obviously we can take them seriously after a video like this. They just risked their butts to test a gizmo for us. This is really the only video to prove that it works because any other video, they could just be using the standard remote for the TV to turn it off.

[jtriffo]

they did it for the lulz

[Xonegod]

Ha, Thats right ~ disagree. Till you have to do a presentation or have alot of your own money on the line, and someone desides to play this prank on you making you look like a retard and loosing all credibility with prospective investors/clients. Then, along with an ounce of maturity you might, just might, know why this event is intollerable.

ITs all funny till it affects you irreversably then all you want is compassion, and will get angry when there is non to reciprocate. but w/e, meh. ^_^

[bishbashboshely]

Absolutely hilarious... and brave, too, since most of them probably wouldn't have seen the funny side if you'd got busted!

Best application of TV-B-Gone I've ever seen!

I bet they put covers on the IR sensors from now on at tech fairs though...

[Sillyzombie666]

YOU EVIL GENUS BASTARDS

[theBUZer]

YESSSS!!!!

[jonathanomgitsme]

this is not okay. zapping a tv in a doctor's office or airport is one thing.

[Sillyzombie666]

dude come on this is epic although really rude but just awesome

[westkan]

So zapping the TV in the doctors office, or where ever, while some are watching it is somehow OK?

[alundquist2006]

this is hysterical. thanks giz

[peanutismint]

Hahah, harsh. Harsh but funny.

I bought one - doesn't seem to be half as effective tho!

[orangesrhyme2]

They had the super model. It has way more IR LEDs.

[enneff]

Wow, that's really harsh ruining that guy's presentation. The rest is pretty funny though!

[ejonesss]

i dont see any danger here (unless the device can cause for example all the traffic lights to turn green (like the emergency vehicles have (chrome box)))

[mex202020]

can it turn on tv's?

[sigi59]

yes

[ForkyStick]

Yes, it is the same signal as for turning them off.

[Krisspychiken]

now i dont know if gizmodo's been sued for this but those companies can actually sue them for causing damage to their reputation while their trying to advertise, say a new tv..

funny but reaaallly dangerous

[RMJ1984]

TV BEGONEY! :D