Television Simulator Baffles Burglars

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota, October 19, 2010 - Ever notice the flickering glow shining from your neighbor's windows when
they are watching television? Burglars use this as a cue that a home is
occupied, so they know to move on to another target. But from now on, many
would-be thieves are going to be misled by a new burglar deterrent device,
FakeTV(TM). A FakeTV simulates the light output of a television, making it
look like someone is home watching TV. A built-in computer controls
super-bright LEDs to produce light of varying intensity and color that lights
up a room just like a real television does. The light effects of real
television programming — scene changes, camera pans, fades, flicks, swells,
on-screen motion, and more — are all faithfully simulated by a FakeTV.

FakeTV was conceived by author and inventor Blaine Readler. "My wife and
I were going out for the evening. I decided to leave the TV on so that it
looked like somebody was still at home. I commented that it was a shame to
waste all that electricity, when the burglars couldn't even see the picture
itself, just the reflection off the wall. That evening, my mind kept coming
back to this. There had to be a cheap way to simulate a television as seen
from outside."

Readler partnered with Hydreon Corporation to make his idea a reality.
They studied that flickering glow in detail, gathering much data with
sophisticated instruments about the exact nature of the intensity and color
variations emanating from a real television. News programs, for example, are
far more static than dramas, and commercials more dynamic. A sequence of
outdoor water scenes may have a bluish cast, a game show set might be
reddish, while an animated sequence might explode with color. The result:
test subjects were unable to tell the difference between the prototype
television simulator and the real thing.

For a would-be burglar, an operating television is always an unwelcome
sight. Most burglars would rather move on to a house that appears to be
vacant. Unlike light from a lamp on a timer, the light from FakeTV is
constantly changing. It gives the impression of life. FakeTV is available in
the UK for about 30GBP. FakeTV is a trademark of Hydreon Corporation. For
more information visit www.faketv.com/uk.

For high resolution images, visit www.faketv.com/pressrelease

Samantha Gore of Sabeoteur Crime Prevention (UK FakeTV Distributor), +44-777-650-835, info at faketv.uk