Radio arse tags solve modern-day TV musical chairs dilemma
Little electronic tags that broadcast data over the air turn up in the strangest of places. Now they've managed to end up sewn into the back of contestants' shorts in a TV version of childhood favourite, musical chairs. The programme is called Oh Sit! and made by US broadcaster CBS. It adds live music and an obstacle course to …
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Just checking.
Do we actually have an example yet of a problem solved using RFID tags that wasn't dreamed up for that purpose?
Kids competing for money?
No wonder they need arse tags.
The parents would sue if little Chuck was pushed off his chair and the umpires got it wrong.
What a fucking sad world.
Re: Kids competing for money?
Er, no. They're full-grown adults, but they do behave like children when they're playing the game, especially as pushing is allowed in certain cirumstances to beat the opponents to the chairs.
It's a bit like Wipeout - you've seen one show you've seen them all, really there are only minor differences between one show and the others; different contestants (though that's not saying much, they all behave the same in the end) and slightly different obstacles for the contestants to climb over/under/round.
It's not kids
as reflecting upon the title may suggest.
It looks more like the movie [Rollerball], which depicts a future spectator sport that is like ice hockey but with violence.
[Oh Sit!] probably has less violence. Than [Rollerball], anyway.
These people really ought to go and find useful things to do with their lives, instead of broadcasting morons playing musical chairs.
How about pin the tail on the donkey?
Or pass the parcel?
Or piggy in the middle?
*These* people *are* doing something useful with their lives.
The useless people are the ones that watch the show and thereby bring in the advertising money.
> I'd like to see Full Contact Hide & Seek.
Isn't that called "sardines"? OK, it was a long time ago...
O dear
"The programme is called Oh Sit!"
I do hope they are careful how they pronounce that.
Re: O dear
Why the "joke alert" icon, is that not the entire point of the name?
Re: O dear
I'm shorry, I have a bit of a shpeech impediment.
"A slip-ring antenna? I slipped something inside your mother's ring last night, Trebek."
I feel reminded of "Wipeout" and "Don't Scare the Hare"
And unfortunately I'm sure that show will come to Germany, where it'll be produced by utter idiots. Contestants will be type C and D celebrities and it'll be terrible. But since commercial stations have virtually no competition (public TV is mostly censored on cable, for example) it'll be "successful".
Anyhow, wasn't one of the ideas behind RFID to track every-a*se's movements?
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