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Sunday, May 01, 2005

TV-B Gone

Yes , It was the last day of Turn Of Tv !! week in U.S. The 11th annual event came to an end on sunday.

According To Kaiser Family Foundation in U.S , which conducted surveys on televesion viewers is US , says that on average kids and adult watch TV for 3.4 hrs to 4 hrs a day.

So a NGO called TVTN( TV Turnoff Network) calls for TURN OF TV !! week every year. and last year they estimated that 7.2 million people participated in the event.

So It was a brisk business this time for Corn Field Electronics Inc . The Device named " TV-B-gone" is selling like hot cakes in U.S . An Electronics Engineer from San Francisco Mitch Altman is founder of Cornfield electronics. It took 2 years to invent the device.
TV-B Gone is a device which switchs off any TV within the range of 20 to 50 feet. and according to Cornfield electronics more than 50,000 TV-B-gone has been sold in US , and its cost is about 15$ per piece.
and TV-B-Gone is named as one of the best innovations of year 2004.
So was the popularity of "Turn off TV , Turn ON LIFE!!.

2 Comments:

Blogger chupru said...

Which idiot said TV is bad!!!!

you know I shot dead the guy who said,
Anoop why dont you turn off that TV and try turning on some women instead.
Wait till I meet this Mitch Altman and his fucked up invention; swith of the TV eh...

3:21 AM

 
Blogger Aslan said...

Mitch Altman is my HERO !!! TV SUX!

5:01 AM

 

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