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Browsing through the Yahoo! news articles of today I came across an article that was explaining how a new console accessory called the GameDr can be attached to your kids' game console to limit the number of hours they play.
The timer works like this: the parents input a specific number of hours, attach the GameDr directly to the consoles power supply, and once the console is turned on, the timer starts counting down as the power goes through the GameDr to the console. Once the limit elapses, it shuts off the power to the console thus no longer allowing the child to play until the parent resets the timer.
One has to wonder just how harmful suddenly being robbed of all power is to a console. I used to have a computer programming teacher that would say yanking the power cord on a computer would be like him coming up to you and punching you in the face. It hurts it badly.
The article also details that the limits of the GameDr could be bypassed if the child simply had a second power cord, unplugged the one with GameDr, and then used the one without thus circumventing the timer completely.
Luckily, such a device probably won't affect 360 owners as it already has built in parental controls. Should gaming even be limited at all, though? Parents don't limit how many books kids are allowed to read or how many movies kids are allowed to go see, so why discriminate against gaming? That is a debate for another day.
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