Auto Console Shut-Off Device Heaven for Parents, Hell for Kids
Look at that little thing, just waiting to be smashed by an angry 12 year old.
All I have to say is thank God they didn’t have this thing when I was a kid. The “Game Doctor,” whose name implies the device would help make gaming better, is a device that hooks up to the power cable of a console, and parents can program in a set amount of time they want their kids to play before it cuts power to the system completely. You can make it beep a ten minute and one minute warning, so your kid can scramble around trying to find a save point so his last two hours of gameplay doesn’t end up being completely useless.
Kids can’t outsmart the device either, by removing it to plug their console in regularly. It’s “tamper-proof” (presumably an upgrade from “child proof”) and requires breaking to get it to open without some sort of key. Anyone want to take bets that 80% of all these devices sold are going to be wrecked with a hammer at some point? Probably around the time the kid is just about to beat a final boss, and the one minute timer is counting down to his doom.
[via Gizmodo]
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If a parent can program this thing, any self-respecting 10-year-old can figure out how to reprogram it without busting it open!
This reminds me of when my cousin’s family got “parent guard” for the cable box. There was no more late night Skinemax movie watching for us. Though looking back now, I don’t think that was such a bad thing.