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Give me a Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to) video on it

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That was literally my first thought when I saw the article.

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God, I love that man

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“I’m about to talk about Christmas lights for an 70 minutes.”

“Hell yeah, bro!”

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Oh, I so want that!

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I like the sounds of the tines! It’s basically just a tuning fork, so wild.

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I’m old and still call the remote “the clicker”. My 7 year old wondered what the heck a clicker is.

Cue old dad “back in my day, the remotes actually clicked” story.

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@reverendz @dingus, when I was young, I was the remote

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Our first tv with a remote control that wasn’t me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv.

Like this was in 1982 so not a modem … just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.

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Yes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.

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I had a Heathkit TV that used a variation of this design! If you held it really close to your ear then you could actually hear it emitting.

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This was mentioned a couple of weeks ago on the Vergecast. I was wondering if someone was going to get assigned the article, and here it is!

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