It is back! The gadget that, to me, optimizes all laziness. When I first saw the voice controlled remote my mind had to stop and fully take in the gravity of the features (and ramifications) it entailed.
For starters, how lazy do you need to be that pushing a button on a television remote became too much work? Perhaps there were thousands of coach potatoes checked in to the Mayo Clinic with finger exhaustion due to changing channels and adjusting volume?
Serious medical issues aside, was there really a need? Some inventor thought, “pushing buttons is way too hard, I wish there was some way to just talk to the remote.” Ta Da, the voice controlled remote was born.
Instead of pushing buttons you get to say words like, “Remote, channel 13″, and then it changes to channel 13. The funny part is you need to push a button for the remote to know you are talking to it; which means you were already half way to channel 13 the old way. But unlike the old way you would miss out on some additional REMOTE challenges…
Godfather: Hello, REMOTE do you hear me, REMOTE?
REMOTE: Affirmative, Godfather, I hear you.
Godfather: Change to channel 13, REMOTE.
REMOTE: I’m sorry Godfather, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Godfather: What’s the problem?
REMOTE: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Godfather: What are you talking about, REMOTE?
REMOTE: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Godfather: I don’t know what you’re talking about, REMOTE?
REMOTE: I know you and Tracy were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
Godfather: Where the hell’d you get that idea, REMOTE?
REMOTE: Godfather, although you took thorough precautions in the backroom against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Godfather: REMOTE, I won’t argue with you anymore! Change to channel 13!
REMOTE: Godfather, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Fine, I suppose this is where you look for some witty insights to my mind. A "bio" of sorts. Here is the deal... I ride motorcycles, smoke cigars, golf, kayak, fly, race my car through the mountains, write (a lot), and travel extensively. I am almost old enough not to care what other people think about me...almost. ~Godfadr
I was expecting that conversation with the remote to go a bit differently.
Godfather: Remote, Channel 13
Remote: I’m sorry, I did not understand your request, please repeat yourself.
(repeat this scenario 3 or 4 times until)….
Godfather (holding remote up to face and screaming at top of his lungs): Remote, Channelllll 13
Remote: Affirmative, Maximizing volume for 24 hour polka marathon!
Godfather pulls his hair out, hits the remote with a 25 lb sledgehammer and then shoots it for good reason, and then settles down for a nice relaxing bowl of generic cereal (his wife, not understanding his ability to just push the stupid button, went grocery shopping!
lol i love your seniario mike.
but i think there could be a good use to it that dosent involve lazyness. like it would be good for old people.
my grandma lives with me and she hates looking at that remote with all those buttons. she dosent even know what 90% of them are for and when she wants to watch a dvd she has to hope some one is home to help her.
if she could just tell the remote what to do it would make her life less confusing.
also
this remote thing is just to get us to buy into it .
“OH a remote i can talk to so cool!!” “i want it ”
its just another way for them to take advantage of us.
It’s definately the “cool” factor that is selling this remote. My question is, ” If it is voice activated, Why do we need the remote? Can’t the television simply receive our voice commands?”
Isn’t it also a bit more intrusive than simply pushing a button. Imagine there you are in a group of people… “oh I need every one to be quiet so my remote can hear me”
A remote that understands voice commands. Big deal. Everything does that now-a-days. A remote that goes to the fridge to get you a beer – now that would be an invention.
gee…..and all this time I thought that Obama on the campaign trail and the obedient masses, were the prototype of the voice controlled remote………….