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Twist and Squeeze Remote Concept Requires Two Hands
Posted by Jason Chen at 8:43 AM on July 3, 2008
Jason Kline's gesture-based remote looks cool, but might not be practical for everyday usage. You adjust the volume with the left knob and the channel with the right, but there's no place to enter in buttons. It does allow you to keep going with the knob turning concept of old time TVs while still allowing you to be lazy on the couch. Not that we'd ever use it, but it might be a decent concept for octogenarians who still miss the old days. [Yanko Design]
Tags: concepts | design | gadgets | remote controls | remotes
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MikeSWelch
Posted 9:14 AM 3/7/08
@Playstation: Wait... you have to hold down a button and then hit another button to change the channel? Really?
MikeSWelch
Playstation
Posted 8:59 AM 3/7/08
I just told my friend that I was about to throw away my TV remote because I have to use my other hand to hold the Cable button to switch channel.
I don't see this is for me, I hate using both hands to operate a remote. But if that's something like a touch screen, I'd consider one.
Playstation
nutbastard
Posted 8:51 AM 3/7/08
how about... "no"?
stuff like this is too easy to make up. here's a few i just made up:
A Sphere-Shaped Phone
Inflatable Shoes
Cardboard Bong
see? easy.
nutbastard
someToast
Posted 9:51 AM 3/7/08
Blah, blah, blah, looks cool, blah, blah, blah, not practical for everyday usage, blah, blah, blah, Yanko Design.
Add a page-scraper to get image URLs and YankoBot is ready to roll!
someToast
JEmlay
Posted 9:35 AM 3/7/08
Two handed operation is the exact reason I took back the Logitech Harmony 1000.
YUCK!
JEmlay
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 9:29 AM 3/7/08
I don't know, might move in the old peoples market.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
kaneshadow
Posted 9:26 AM 3/7/08
LOL @nutbastard
Totally agree... that stuff on Yanko design always has that Carrot Top feel to it
(please put me down for 2x inflatable shoes (both lefty))
kaneshadow
Dynasty
Posted 9:23 AM 3/7/08
Please leave this kind of things for KanYe, he loves them.
I hope that is not actual size...
Dynasty
Griffehpoo
Posted 10:24 AM 3/7/08
There's nothing wrong with this product! It's just extremely niche. Like, for Tron Guy only. Very limited run.
Griffehpoo
Stem_Sell
Posted 12:05 PM 3/7/08
Leaping to the easy ass-umption that "Licentia" is derivative of 'licentious' (sexually unrestrained) then the whole 'two hands' thing makes perfect sense (or should I say 'sence'?)!
Stem_Sell
SinAmos
Posted 12:59 PM 3/7/08
@Stem_Sell: "Licentious" rolls around in your mouth like a steamy pile of horny. This device on the other hand is purely banal, which clogs the throat, which brings out asphyxiation, which can be equally sexy, depending on what you are into.
SinAmos
SgtMac02
Posted 10:53 PM 3/7/08
@Dynasty: I do believe that is actual size, but the picture is deceiving. It's a practice in the art of perspective. It looks like its' slightly smaller than your average volleyball, but look at it's size in relation to the (apparent) coffee cup which is sitting a few inches away at the edge of the frame. It's still rather large if it's as big as a coffee cup though...seeing as how it doesn't have all those buttons, it should be much smaller. Perhaps the size of the old TV knobs it harkens back to?
SgtMac02