Easter Eggs In Consumer Electronics? 13
BBSOD asks: "I spotted this short article in Wednesday's paper. It states that Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) police are going to carry out tests on some models of Nokia phones for what appears to be a built-in speed trap detector. Now this got me thinking, often software writers add Easter eggs to their software so what about designers of consumer electronics? Can my microwave also be used as a personal organizer? Sure it's bulky, but try getting your Palm V to heat last night's special fried rice in under three minutes. So, what extra features have you heard of or seen in electronics devices that the manual didn't exactly feature?" Well, since we've already talked about Easter eggs in software, why not hardware?
Yes (Score:1)
Obviously, I can'T say which one becAuse that miGht cause some trouble.
Sounds like inadequate sheilding and filtering (Score:1)
Re:Sounds like inadequate sheilding and filtering (Score:1)
If their phones are more expensive than other brands, the company's profitability is at risk and that means the jobs of the designers are at risk.
I don't think you could get all of the designers to agree to risk their careers to put in a radar detector that has about as much range as a megaphone, but since you can make a detector that good with a capacitor and an op-amp, there's probably a semiconductor junction in there somewhere acting as an antenna.
That's assuming that these phones really are doing this in the first place.
HP ScanJets (Score:1)
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Re:HP ScanJets (Score:1)
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More info? (Score:1)
satans microwave (Score:1)
Here's How: (Score:1)
Kalrand
-the voice of reason
Re:HP ScanJets (Score:1)
>Turn on light
>Get up
>get gown
Play online Infocom HHGG [douglasadams.com].
Re:Yes (Score:1)
Hot Palms (Score:2)
I've read about some overclocked x86s that could do this... Get it into a Palm with wireless internet and GPS, and you'd have a great camping tool!
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Hardware easter eggs (Score:3)
TI-92 Calculator (Score:5)
There's also a lot of other hardware listed here [eeggs.com]. Look under "hardware [eeggs.com]" and "other [eeggs.com]".
A short list: