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Etch-A-Sketch on the Plasma

Posted January 22, 2008 7:54 AM

From Crave: The gadget blog:

It's the perfect gift to address a Boomer's midlife crisis: an excuse to get a big-screen TV and to relive one's childhood. The "Deluxe TV Etch-A-Sketch" has a handheld controller that plugs into the television so you can put your work on display for all to see--until someone wants to watch something, anyway. The knobs look a little different from those on the original, so purists might not allow it in any sort of competition.

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01/22/2008 2:03 PM

As I see it, the only people who would buy this are those with more money than sense.

'nuff said.

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01/23/2008 1:14 PM

I would recomend that they only use this device on an LCD thin panel so as not to create burn in lines on a phospher based screen, ie plasma, CRT.
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01/23/2008 4:39 PM

One step closer to the inmates completely running the asylum, methinks, but oh, what fun along the way!

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