I may never set foot inside my local video store again, and before you ask, it's nothing to do with the unfortunate Haagen Daas incident, either.

Recently(ish), I hired out a copy of "Robert Smith Live in Concert", and forgot to send it back. Not because I was trying to steal it, nor because I was lazy. Simply because I forgot. I hired it in March, and it's now July. Inbetween Days, I have ratcheted up a rental charge something akin to the national debt of Burkina Faso.

A timer chip in/on the video box itself, set to bleep after 24 or 48 hours, would have prevented this from happening.

As we all know, prevention is better than The Cure.
-- Fishrat, Jul 19 2004

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Warning alarm sounded in nearly overdue library books [xaviergisz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

And it sits atop the telly, beeping forlornly in your empty house while you're at work.
-- calum, Jul 19 2004


Well, it could page you, but that might increase the development costs.
-- st3f, Jul 19 2004


it could text you...
-- po, Jul 19 2004


//the unfortunate Haagen Daas incident//
I once had A Night Like This, too. With an RFID tag or some such and a bit of TCP or SNMP trickery you could get alerted to the little bleeper remotely.
-- gnomethang, Jul 19 2004


Ah, gnomethang, have yourself a scoop of Belgian Chocolate to celebrate. I wonder now, if it bleeped in A Forest....
-- Fishrat, Jul 19 2004



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