Clear spray for your monitor. Reacts with finger oils over time to release an unpleasant smell. Comes with a sticker warning of this, to be placed on your monitor.
This product are for those who really hate a fingerprinted monitor. Sure, it'll also react with the fingerprint on your monitor, but the targeted consumer is anal enough to have cleaned the monitor by then anyway.-- Worldgineer, Jan 19 2006 Ew, [World]! +-- moomintroll, Jan 19 2006 Anyone seen or read Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose"? Anyway, who are you calling "anal"?-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jan 19 2006 [21] Just don't display the sticker or tell them about it. They'll still touch your screen, but will always wonder why their fingers smell. It's a small victory, but better than nothing.-- Worldgineer, Jan 19 2006 But my finger already smells funny-- Dub, Jan 19 2006 "touch my monitor and I'll make your finger smell funny" boy, this lad's really hard!-- po, Jan 19 2006 The punishment should fit the crime, [po].
Next up: annoying disco music playing anti-theft pen alarm system.-- Worldgineer, Jan 19 2006 Not much use in a police crime storage area then....
what about "Touch my monitor and I'll make your finger fall slightly off" ? - sound effect of descending hatchet slicing through the air..... It's a very silly idea and fully deserving of a reward +-- xenzag, Jan 19 2006 Or go all the way using that flesh-eating virus. Perhaps a bit drastic.-- Worldgineer, Jan 19 2006 [Absinthe] Maybe I'm not with it, but I don't see what "Name of the Rose" has to do with this idea. Have a moment to explain for us thickies??-- PollyNo9, Jan 19 2006 [crash] would stink and my monitor would still be filthy.-- wagster, Jan 19 2006 Dont tell them what irritates you? Hmmm... so like if I said something like... pretty women on the job waiting on me hand and foot is something that is irritating to me then I guess they will do it just to spite me.. hmmm.. good idea.-- Jscotty, Jan 20 2006 Use a CRT and turn up the voltage to the tube. They'll leran soon enough.-- Aq_Bi, Jan 20 2006 [PollyNo9] Part of the plot of Name of the Rose concerned a book which killed. The book (a comedy) was in the library of a monastery of a strict order of mediaeval monks. It killed those who read it because they licked their fingers to turn the page, and the corners of the pages had been poisoned by a very strict monk who thought that laughter was a sin. Though why he didn't just burn the book, I don't remember. A kind of Dark Ages whodunnit. The analogy was that I would gladly wish agonising intestinal pains on anyone who touches my pristine flastscreen.-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jan 20 2006 Yeah, but who wants a sticker on their monitor?-- justaguy, Jan 20 2006 Maybe the monk wasn't bothered as much by laughter as by people who lick their fingers when turning pages.-- Worldgineer, Jan 20 2006 <sprays monitor>-- The Kat, Jan 20 2006 [Absinthe] Ahhh that's right, I remember now. It's beena few years since I read it. I can't remember why he didn't burn it either, but I can't imagine that that fact was covered. Hm. Anyways, nice connection. I should re-read that one.-- PollyNo9, Jan 21 2006 Not a good idea if you have a touch-screen.-- nick_n_uit, Jan 21 2006 random, halfbakery