Update 1/14/08: 

Apparently some sourpusses at CES were not happy about the prank, and have banned a Gizmodo writer from future CES shows because of the prank.

A Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business? This is totally pathetic.

Motorola, who got the worst of the pranking in the video, said “no harm no foul” according to the article.  Lighten up!  Maybe that’s why CES is trending towards irrelevancy, like E3 did on the gaming side of things.

Original Post:

Gizmodo.com posted a video of some mischief they created at CES with the TV-B-Gone device.  As they say on their blog…

We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn’t stop.

Check out the video on their site.  It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile.