TV-B-Gone

I forget where I first heard of this, but boy is it cool. If I could only stand to carry a big keychain... Anyway, here's a New York Times story, The Television Blaster, and of course the TV-B-Gone site.

The technology he went on to develop is simple: an L.E.D. emits the ''power'' codes for every brand of set, one after the next. It takes 69 seconds to hit them all.