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Still Christmas Shopping for that Important Geek in Your Life?

Christy
Thursday
1:33 pm

Well, look no further.  This might be my new favorite thing from ThinkGeek.com.   Magic Wand – Programmable TV Remote.

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This magical wand learns directly from your current remote control and “maps them to particular magical motions.”  For example, waving the wand from side to side will change the channel.

I plan to order it now and then when I eventually have children I will only change the TV volume, channel, etc with this.  Just so they know that I really do have magical powers.  Mwuahaha.  As a side note, I was deceived on a regular basis as a child so I feel good about perpetuating the cycle.  For instance, there was that one year when I was 7 where my Dad told me that he had programmed the Christmas tree lights to be voice activated.  All I needed to do was say the alphabet clearly and distinctly into the leaves of the tree.  There was a lot of repositioning so that the tree could “hear me.”  By the time I had completed reciting the alphabet, my face was pretty much buried in the branches almost touching the trunk.   The tree would then obey my on/off commands.  Which it did.  I even recruited my sibling to “programme” their voices.  About an hour into our game I saw my Dad clicking the remote that the lights were plugged into.  Still makes me smile to this day.

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