A huge problem with 24 hour sports coverage is that big stories tend to get over covered. Matt Richardson may have come up with a solution for the annoyed sports fan. Richardson hacked his TV remote to automatically mute the TV when a certain celebrity name was mentioned. The inspiration for his invention was not actually sports but celebrities that have crept their way into mainstream news.To create his remote, Richardson “combined a couple of Arduino circuit boards with an infrared LED light -- that little red bubble on the front of your TV remote -- and programmed the whole thing to interact with a TV's closed-captioning system. [It] reads the closed-captioning transcript as it's aired and then automatically mutes the television for 30 seconds when it picks up certain words.” Arduino is “a piece of computer hardware that can be programmed to do anything you want.”
Unlike Richardson I'm less irritated by the Kardashians and Snooki. So instead I looked back over the past few years and below is my list of sports topics I would have liked to mute during their reign of media terror.
1. Brett Favre - Every summer before training camp.
2. LeBron James - Summer of 2010
3. Tiger Woods - Nov. 2009 - Apr 2010
4. “NFL Lockout” – March 2011 – August 2011
5. Michael Vick - All of 2007
Ref. cnn.com, Pic Ref. cnn.com
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