I was talking to a friend, and I have decided that some crafty engineer could make a device that would fly off the shelves. I want a lightweight universal remote/cell phone that could be worn on my wrist much like the playlists NFL QB’s wear during football games.
I spend at least an hour every day looking (it seems) for one remote or another, and my cell phone only rings under a few circumstances:
1.) The moment my posterior makes contact with a toilet seat.
2.) The split second in between me turning the shower on and the water actually hitting my body.
3.) Whenever it is located at approximately the farthest distance from me in my apartment.
MIT grads, get on it.
David Perron
MIT grads (not that I’m one; I’m only a Boilermaker) would probably say this is yet another case of selective data sampling, similar to the “bad things happen in threes” meme.
BigScaryBrain
I let the phone ring while on the john. A man needs his quiet time.
J Bowen
Check out a Handspring Treo or the like. It’s a phone and a PDA with an infrared data port. Then you download some software (available at various places) that knows how to operate the infrared as a remote for your TV or whatever else.
MIT grads? I guess they’re not a bad choice – as our T-shirts used to say, they’re the Georgia Tech of the North.