Hopscotch's B.O.B. doles out the TV time

We here at Engadget never shirk our duty to inform parents in clever schemes to allow them to shirk theirs, so today we bring you the B.O.B. from Hopscotch, a media time management system to allot TV access time to your offspring. We've seen plenty of this type of device, but the B.O.B. helps get the kids all ready for the rat race with an individual PIN to sign in and out of viewing time, so major props for that. You can set daily or weekly viewing time allotments, black-out certain times, and of course override the system to kick back with the TiVo for few hours after the kids are asleep.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2006 7:51AM]

"Have you ever concidered turning off the TV?

Sitting down with your kids,

And hitting them?" - Bender, Futurama.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2006 9:23AM]

TV's still come with knobs you know, even my LG 42" LCD has knobs to change channels, volume, menu and on/off.

What about just telling them not to watch and they obey, how weird would that be huh?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2006 10:22AM]

"B.O.B. doles" . . . you guys think you're funny . . . Bob Dole doesn't approve of that! Bob Dole reads Engadget. Bob Dole did not laugh.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2006 11:39AM]

Umm, my remote misses the TV/Stereo most of the time anyway due to my wife's purse, boxes or DVD cases left at the wrong spot. How long before a 2 year old figures out that if you "lose" the remote in the sofa, you can watch TV for as long as you want. That or that the code you set is 1111.

[Liam O Posted Jan 5th 2006 4:37PM]

Yeah, I guess that kids are to lazy to just go up to the tv and change the channels/volume that way. So if the remote dosen't work then they wont watch tv.