Homebrew device mutes your TV when it hears unwanted phrases

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Sick of overexposed issues, shows, and personalities on TV? So much so that you wish shouting "Enough already!" could remove them from your TV-viewing experience entirely? Matt Richardson feels the same way. So he took the open-source platform called Arduino, and tweaked it to automatically mute the television when pre-programmed keywords or phrases are mentioned. He very aptly named the homebrew device, Enough Already.

Once the device is plugged into your set-top box, it reads the transcript of whatever it is you're watching. When it comes across one of your taboo words or phrases, it sends a signal via infrared to your remote control, which in turn mutes the television. Each muting cycle lasts 30 seconds, and if a keyword is mentioned again within that timeframe, the timer is reset for another 30-second cycle. Once the last muting cycle is over, your remote control receives an unmute command signal from the device.

Richardson asked his readers in Make what they would censor if they had a similar device. He took interest in a response left by a commenter who proposed the mechanical generation of trigger phrases from online sources such as Twitter's trending topics. Richardson says he could incorporate that feature on version two. For now, he's just very happy he doesn't have to listen to anything related to Snooki or Kim Kardashian and her wedding plans.

"Good one to stop ads" 

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