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Device for Tattling on Fellow Moviegoers

by Tom Conlon, posted May 29th 2007 at 9:32AM

Device for Tattling on Fellow Moviegoers
America's largest movie theater chain wants to make rats out of all of us. This week, Regal Entertainment Group is greatly expanding its pilot program, which puts wireless "tattle" devices in the hands of frequent customers. The cell phone sized transmitters (photo) have four buttons -- "picture," "sound," "piracy" and "other disturbance." When pressed, the buttons activate a silent alert that informs the theater staff of a problem.

The program was launched last year in 13 Regal locations and has been so successful in improving customer behavior inside of theaters that it is now being deployed to a total of 114 locations. In the original program, tattletale customers were awarded a free bag of popcorn for their work as double agents, though there's no word from Regal if that will still be the case.

We're in love with this program. With people talking, cell phones ringing, babies crying and those idiots who think yelling at the actors could actually alter the course of the film's plot, the annoyances at the average theater-going-experience have become unbearable. Now if only there were a button for "This movie is garbage, I want my $10 back."

From USA Today

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iPods Kicked Out of Class

by Tom Conlon, posted Apr 30th 2007 at 7:30AM

iPods Kicked out of the ClassroomJunior's iPod is helping him do more a lot than go deaf at an early age -- it's also helping him cheat his way to better grades. According to the Associated Press, schools all over the world are banning iPods and other digital media players from the classroom because they are increasingly being used to cheat.

The latest iPod ban came out of Mountain View High School in Meridian, Ohio, which found students listening to test answers by discreetly snaking earbuds through their clothes up out of their collars, then behind their ears. Other ways the iPod is being used to cheat include disguising text as song lyrics and storing graphs and charts as photos.

But, Apple's iPod isn't the sole perpetrator. A high school in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, recently banned all digital media players as well as cell phones. Australia's University of Tasmania bars iPods, electronic dictionaries, CD players and spell-checking devices from entering the classroom.

In fact, it's not just schools banning digital devices on their grounds. One in three Canadian businesses now bans iPods from the office out of fear that the players' disk mode could be used for corporate theft. Or, too much Rush.

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