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The Screamer – A yell-on yell-off light

by eieio on 5/8/25, 7:15 PM with 15 comments

  • by vunderba on 5/10/25, 5:56 AM

    Our next-door neighbor had one of the original Clappers and I distinctly remember the dad cursing whenever he would be channel surfing and accidentally turn to a show filmed before a live audience (like the Arsenio Hall Show) because the applause from the audience would occasionally trigger the clapper and turn the lights off in the living room.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper

  • by codr7 on 5/10/25, 5:08 AM

    As a climber that word has a very different meaning to me.

    A reminder that its better to live to climb another route than test the limits of what's possible.

    https://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/Climbing/Big-Wall-Aid...

  • by fakedang on 5/10/25, 6:33 AM

  • by ascorbic on 5/10/25, 7:36 AM

    Many years ago when I worked on the Triggertrap camera trigger we'd set up a "scream booth" at events, using the sound trigger. It was a great way of getting attention, and generating content that people want to share. https://www.diyphotography.net/how-build-scream-triggered-ph...

  • by numbsafari on 5/10/25, 10:57 AM

    I am imagining putting this in my toddlers bedroom and how much delight he would derive from and how much chaos would ensue.

  • by jansan on 5/10/25, 11:52 AM

    Braun had an alarm clock in the 90s that you could control with your voice. They called it "voice contol" and the commercial is hilariously similar to your video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCXmrpQoZ8

  • by windows2020 on 5/10/25, 3:43 PM

    It's like when my Leviton ODSMT-MDW in-wall motion sensor with microphone tunes out shower noise.