Hey, I like fire. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Maybe it won't catch on, like the Taste Strips ads (aka Peel and Taste). Did anyone ever encounter one of these?

[www.cnet.com]

This plan cannot fail.

As one other poster said though, it does look like they are opening a hardcover book, not a magazine, so this must not be on thin flexible paper. It reminds me more of those sound button books for kids.

@YouDidWhatNow?:

...crap. That was supposed to a minor 1337 speak there for "haxor" - that got lost because this thing thought I was trying to do an HTML tag.

Anyway, the gist was supposed to be that a haxor creates some wireless doohicky to flash update these things to show some midget-on-granny porn or something, just by walking by the newsstand.

Bah. Stupid internets.

@dadelus:

That would be poetic justice...some ha>

Of course, one would presume the advertisers wouldn't make the things wirelessly aware...but who knows. We can dream.

@Shoelace:

Anything can be silenced by a sufficiently-large hammer applied with sufficient force.

I'm guessing a good slap of the hand would take care of these things though.

No, but I'm sure a good pounding with a hammer, or a well-placed shiv with a sharp knife will do the trick.

And I doubt the electrical current will be more than a few hundred milliamps.

@larrymac: I use my Cuecat frequently.. Granted, I hacked it so that it operates like a regular barcode scanner, but I update my paperback book & DVD inventory programs about twice a month just by running the CueCat over the book/dvd barcode. They're pretty handy little devices.

I know I feel like I've been sliced at the waist whenever I come across that awful show.

Here's hoping for an Enzyte commercial to play on a magazine while someone's reading it at the library. Let hilarity ensue!!!

I would imagine that the only magazine that I read won't be using this new fangled technology.

Good ole Consumer Reports.. so reliable.

....Right?

@Applekid: Unlikely. They call that the internet.

Also, Magazines that talk = -1.

@dadelus: Probably not any time soon, being that this particular ad is only going to hit subscribers, and only those in a couple of select markets. It's not going to be on stands at all, at least not this incarnation of it.

Me: "Oh yeah shes hot, look at those big ti.."
Advertiser: "TRY THE NEW AND IMPROVED OSCAR MAYER WEINER!! MORE MEAT THAN YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH!!"
Me: "Oh god.."

@bastion72: My thought was along the same lines. I'm wondering how long before someone starts going aruond hacking the magazines to display porn instead of the intended ad.

For example, on the web site for Vogue Knitting they have videos where you can see all of the finished projects from all sides. That would be a neat thing to have in the magazine itself.

(BTW, I love the "sorry, I meant syfy of course" tag)

@Radi0logy:

Agreed. Instant subscription cancellation.

Just thinking of multiple mags with noisy ads in a pediatrician's office, and kids running around opening them all, makes me want to cry.

I'm sure all the mommies who like to read magazines when they finally get their babies to nap will really appreciate sudden loud noises too. Oh, yeah, that'll go over really well.

Somehow I think this trend will die or magazines will.

Luckily all I get these days is CR and Family Fun, and if Family Fun does it, I'll dump them.

@Fanboy1217: Like I'd be late...while I'm wearing these thousand dollar pants?

COME ON!

So I'll just have to keep a hammer near by in the future while I'm thumbing through my favorite magazines?

Cut out advertisements. Rewire. Free tiny monitors! I see no problems with this, besides the fact that I don't subscribe to any magazines (besides game informer, cause Gamestop gives me one with my edge card)

I would love a subscription to The Daily Prophet, thank you very much.

@bornonbord: What you say is true: Doesn't anyone remember in Minority Report, the cereal box-fronts were all basically commercials? I remember thinking how cool that was. But not that the future is "today," I'm thinking how horrifically annoying that, and this, will be.

Hammer time!

I lost my first comment but I was basically questioning the cost.

"Wouldn't that be prohibitively expensive?"

Also, I pretty much only read magazines in the bath. I have to admit I'm a more than a little concerned about logistics.

Wouldn't that be prohibitively expensive?

MY NAME IS JUDGE!

Just a little early notification for you.

Although kinda cool the first time you see it.