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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.
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To be fair, i can't see how this is as bad as your making it out to be. I know a few people who have timed light switches on their lights when they go away on long holidays to give the illusion that the house is occupied. This is on the same lines, and possibly more energy efficient.
Besides, weather or not you agree it's a good design or not, I would guarantee you that their is a market consisting of paranoid, over-protective, extra cautious people out there who would buy this.
Theres definitely more questionable products around than this one.
I dunno.. I would be pretty impressed if I visited someones place and they had replaced all the real TV's with these.
Tv w/o the "Programming"! Sounds safe to me, really. So I'd market it differently- New Age Tv! ha ha. ...I see your point, and fear based marketing :l
I have a much more wonderfully useless product for you. My first thought was, "Oh, how cute!" and then rationality came flooding through me with a nice, "Wait...WHAT??"
http://store.roseandradish.com/product-exec/product_id/1596/nm/Jacquelineknits_Apple_Jacket_
Actually, it's for REAL. We got one of these right before we went on a long vacation. We used this in addition to
our old stand-bys of having lights on timers and asking the nosey neighbor to keeps her eyes open, etc. A group of teenagers vandalized the neighborhood one night while we were out of town, and they left our house alone (this wasn't the case for several of our neighbors). It is definitely not an item that would be of use to someone who still lives at home in their parent's basement or for that person who always happens to be at home anyway sitting on the computer. For those people it would truly be "useless".
The answer to all of those questions is "Yes."
After doin my time as an exstacy poppin party kid a few blinky lights still gets my attention but really!?! fake tv!? totally unnecessary. not only is this a hideously unattractive waste of a product to further fill our landfills (HUGE pet pev) but its not exactly the Spartan Army of protection either. call Brinks for CJ's sake!!