Fart-operated TV remote

On Instructables, Schmidtn posted how-to instructions for his Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote.

My Pops really enjoys two things; 1) channel surfing and 2) farting. So one day I was over at Hackaday and read about a guy who used his Arduino to turn a TV on and off with one of those brainwave reading headsets. Then later on that same day I was here at Instructables and a fellow had made an office chair that twitters every time he farted. So, I got to thinking and decided to mash those two hacks into one remote that changes the TV to a random channel every time he tutes!
Plus, if you throw it in a plastic enclosure and hide it between the couch cushions; you've got a purdy dang good prank!

Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote

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Remus Shepherd

At last, a TV remote my dog can operate.
Anonymous

brilliant!
Anonymous

In a similar vein:

http://improbable.com/2010/07/21/art-boadwee-rectal-squirt-method/
millrick

i am overcome with dispair
- millrick
  
  or possibly despair…
  it’s hard to type through the tears
Anonymous

ill take 5 and hide them about my old bachelor friends homes. muhahahahahaha.
Anonymous

At last! Now I can channel surf without putting down the double-stuffed pizza and cheezy sticks!
TulsaTV

Hey, “The Sarah Silverman Program” is on!
Anonymous

A fart operated remote? I could probably play a fart operated pipe organ with the gas I’ve been getting.
Donald Petersen

21st century civilization has reached its zenith, ninety years earlier than expected.

It’s all downhill from here, folks.
hassenpfeffer

This is nothing compared to the flatulence-driven device at the start of Scalzi’s The Android’s Dream.
Patrick Dodds

A chair that Twitters every time the occupant farts? As a comment on Twitter, that’s not bad.
Anonymous

Best. News. Ever.
Anonymous

Really?! I would guess that all the smart women in the universe already know how boring/predictable/infantile (babies love farts) the men in the world are.

Go for it guys: you only prove us right!
- bassplayinben
  
  You’re in the wrong thread, harpy.
- UncaScrooge
  
  Smart men already know that farts aren’t really all that funny, but annoying women with fart humor is priceless comedy.
Anonymous

57 guffs and nuthin on
MrsBug

If my dad had this, we’d never get to watch anything for more than 10 minutes.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  If my SO had this, we wouldn’t get to watch anything after dinner for longer than 5 minutes.
Nash Rambler

With right eye-clawing infomercial, this baby would sell like hotcakes. In the meantime, I’m continually amazed at people’s capacity to invent new lows, and immediately stoop to them.