First, I am not a television watcher. I don't own one, even. I got sick of its leftist garbage years ago and decided I had better things to do with my life.

However, to suggest going into bars and clicking off the TV when something you don't like comes on is not a prank; it is the kind of fascist censorship of content that you don't like that I have come to expect from the left-leaning folks in particular. And I know this comment will tick some lefties off, but honestly, before getting your panties in a wad, think: when Ann Coulter, or David Horowitz, or any number of other right-leaning speakers are on college campuses, who is it always throwing pies at them, or disrupting their speech with air horns or idiotic chanting, so that the people who paid to be there can not hear the speech? Then look at the flipside: can you even name a time that a left-leaning speaker was at a college campus at the invitation of a campus group, and got yelled down, or had a pie thrown at them? No? Wonder why?
So. buy this item, if you fear hearing FoxNews so badly that you can't tolerate (and I thought you were the 'tolerance' folks?) a moment of it in an airport lounge or bar, but be aware that those of us on the right have long ago learned to ignore the illogical and factually inaccurate Dem party cheerleading coming from the rest of the media outlets.

Dave your a whiny bastard.

The covert nature of this device appeals to the revolutionary in me, but I gotta go with Dave on this one...

Has Dave been watching the news these past few weeks? Who does he think is doing all the screaming, disrupting meetings and lynching models look-a-likes of politicians?

Does Dave still believe his completely baseless statement?

Anyway, nice product, but I do agree that turning off TVs in bars that others may be watching is a pretty jerk thing to do, even if I hate TVs in bars myself.

Bob, Ever wonder why "your" sometimes appears as "you're"? Duh.

Sam, turning off TVs in bars that others may be watching may be a pretty jerky thing to do, but what about TVs that no-one is watching? How annoying its it to be the only person sitting in a doctor's office, airport waiting area, or other public space and have to hear the drone of a TV that no one's watching? You could ask around among the people sitting behind desks and counters and find out who's reponsible for turning the TVs off and on, but I suspect that will only get you baffled looks. ("What? He doesn't want to watch TV? Is he dangerous?") Haven't you ever wished you could just squeeze your eyes shut and have them all disappear? This device could make that fantasy come true. I, alas, will never buy one, however. I wouldn't trust myself with that much power.

Yeah, Sam, Dave has been watching the TV a bit lately, and there has not been one single instance of 'lynching models (sic) look-a-likes of politicians.' Not one. The street-theater of killing in effigy or carrying around those ludicrous paper mache puppet heads of politicians is exclusively a leftist act.

As for my statement being baseless, it still stands as true, and you have shown nothing to disprove it (please reread it and point out, if you can, which things I said were untrue or baseless).

Well, after an intensive search -- took me about a minute -- I did come up with this one picture --

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/28/dem-effigy-afp/

I started to address some of Dave's blather, but it was turning into an essay not appropriate for this forum. Suffice it to say, that while I am deeply offended by professional, paid Liars like Coulter, Horowitz and the Faux News gang, willful ignorance like Dave's just makes me sad. Especially the kind of twisted-up, limited thinking that says freedom means being a captive audience to said liars when you're just trying to go about your personal business. Hooray for TV-B-Gone!

How about inventing a device to control thermostats so you can turn off the AC or Heat because it inconveniences you. This is not a CoolTool and I'm surprised that a guy like KK leaves it on his site.

i love the idea ... like the idea of a cell phone blocking button one could use in a restaurant or movie theater. my reason for liking it is that tv, in general sucks and gets in the way of social interaction. small minds talk about people. mediocre minds talk about events. great minds talk of ideas. and, perhaps, the smallest minds wait for an electronic box to feed them everything without any interaction.

but i also hate the idea for similar reasons captured by Dave. i proudly lean to the left but gladly in a more libertarian (not the party) way. i'm more angered by people who would rather tell others what to do than to apply restraint to their own life. liberal/conservative or rich/poor. doesn't matter. if you don't like tv in a bar, go to a different bar. they even have bars where people read and write and play music. or, better yet, be a person out doing things instead of a person sitting around drinking and talking about (or watching) the people doing things.

consider for a moment cell phones. i'll bet kk would find a place on the site for a personal cell phone blocker (if it were legal). you know, something made for those trips to the movies or a dinner date when the rude people next to you just can't seem to comprehend the "please silence your cell phone" signs. however, those rude and arrogant people are free to be rude and arrogant. just as free as you are to be responsible and respectful. and such a device would encroach upon that freedom; as annoying as the alternative is. True Democracy is not about selective freedom. unfortunately, as evidenced by some of the posts here, that is something yet to be learned in our great nation.

from John Prine's song, "Spanish Pipedream":

blow up your tv
throw away your paper
move to the country
build you a home!

Surprised at how political and deep this discussion is . let's remember
it doesn't turn the TV off forever . If those nearest the tv find they just can't
live without it they can turn it back on.

Wow! This looks like the most fun you could have with your clothes on, and wouldn't it be cool if it turned off TVs for EVER lol. That said, this is has become a very political thread. Personally, I "hate" both preachy "kneejerk" leftists and whining hypocritical "conned-servatives." Maybe if you all turned off your TVs you could get together and put together the few parts of your programs that have real value and achieve some sort of synthesis that would be useful for the rest of us!
Back on point: who cares if it's rude to shut down a bar TV at the high point of a Superbowl™ game? It's great fun to be rude now and then. I'm buying one of these to string next to my keychain kuboton. (!) And hey: great website KK*a