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From: jeff@xanadu.com (Jeff Crilly N6ZFX)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: I/R remotes
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.064732.15931@xanadu.com>
Date: 10 Nov 90 06:47:32 GMT
References: <972@qucis.queensu.CA> <1606@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <HEMSTREE.90Oct25133337@handel.handel.CS.Colostate.Edu>
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In article <HEMSTREE.90Oct25133337@handel.handel.CS.Colostate.Edu> hemstree@handel.CS.Colostate.Edu (charles he hemstreet) writes:
>In article <1606@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
>
>   I/R remote trivia:
>
>   You can reflect I/R beams off lightly colored (ie white) surfaces. I got my
>   TV & VCR to respond around corners -- not just line-of-sight. No luck with
>   double reflections.
>
>Imagine my surprise when I turned 180 degrees from my TV to my
>roommate to pretend to turn him off, pointed at my roommates face, hit
>the off button, and turned off the tv instead!  There were no mirrors
>behind him, so I suppose the beam reflected off his eyes, or teeth. :-)

Its the eyes.  Not sure about teeth though. 

Jeff Crilly (N6ZFX)
AMIX Corporation  2345 Yale Street  Palo Alto, CA  94306
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