Comments on: The future of annoyance

By: YSGold

YSGold — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:01:34 +0000

Types: “Your computer is now obsolete. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Google”

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:25:16 +0000

Have the text in the field they are typing in disappear. It’s still there (when they move to a different field) but then, where they move to turns invisible too.

By: Steel

Steel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:59:50 +0000

Have enter order pizza via the internet and have it charged to a tab to there house.

By: Kaputnik

Kaputnik — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:12:43 +0000

How about some phrases like “i won’t type THAT in dude…”, “you’re so pervertet”(and then opening porn sites), “sorry, i wasn’t listening. What do you want me to write?”(first not typing in keys and then displaying this message)

or no…. even better: chat bot like A.L.I.C.E that reply on every word or sentence you write!

but things like alt-F4 or ctrl-alt-del or esc or ctrl-a and ctrl-c and then ctrl-v (at random times)

yay why not a little code that turns desktop 180 degrees so its upside down (nvidia graphics can do so)

pushing enter at random times

inverting mouse direction

making sound like mice gnawing on cable and then after few secs flickering the screen a bit or cutting internet connectivity or muting keyboard or mouse e.t.c.

just shutting computer down via power-off

forcing sound to turn up volume, playing a scream and popping up a zombie pic

inverting colour

changing date and time

open random webpages like z0r.de pown.it icanhascheezburger.com e.t.c.

inverting keyboard so the button “A” is displayed as a “F” and so on (including esc, alt, F1-F12, numbers e.t.c.)

there are loads of more ideas but writing them all takes me too much time ^^

greetZ

By: J H

J H — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:13:22 +0000

How about some kind of code entry to trigger a blue screen? Or no keyboard at all… A little app to store random passwords they enter and pop up little malware like ad windows telling them that they are insecure and the last password they entered and to go buy some anti-keylogger software.

By: jmags

jmags — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:50:32 +0000

@bigd145

Random “insert” would def. give me a brain anneurism.

By: TrIpp Ch@os

TrIpp Ch@os — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:50:12 +0000

Kill the screen for about 4 seconds about the time it would take someone to finally go to press the power button or make another action have the screen come back on then give it like 8 more seconds to do it again, but crank the volume this time and when it comes back on the victim will go to fix the volume only to have it mute and the pointer disappear and reappear somewhere else on the screen then for it to go back to normal and have it happen like an hour to a few days later. and in between kill the monitor on vowels and tab switch escape to open random windows only for 3 times thus causing a complete shutdown.

By: S

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:32:49 +0000

how about keeping a thesaurus on the device and replacing typed words with their equals
very subtle, but would drive the writer insane in the estimation of his literacy – atleast until he figures it out

By: Bill Honda

Bill Honda — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:45:44 +0000

Randomly minimize programs, change contrast and brightness of screen, random incoherent error messages like “your constant visits to pornographic websites has loaded a plethora of viruses on your hardware”

By: follower

follower — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:27:08 +0000

Hi,

I worked on a similar project recently, based on the Arduino environment:

http://code.rancidbacon.com/ProjectLogUSBStealthTwiddler

One thing I noticed is that it seems Mac OS X seems to keep keyboard capslock status separate between devices. This means toggling the capslock on the stealth device does not affect the main keyboard. Has anyone else noticed this?

–Phil.

By: nick

nick — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:37:54 +0000

@cobolt- I like the idea of a type delay, in combo with a random letter insert or word insert they would think a bad virus is running on their computer, they might even go as far as to wipe their hard drive to “fix” the problem, and after all of that it still would be there, it would drive someone crazy!

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:46:46 +0000

This device is nice and cruel! As Andrew mentioned I would have it do random key command shortcuts, maybe a switch that selects OS for the shortcuts would be a good idea (or some way for it to autodetect). I am not sure I would do alt-F4 and the other destructive strokes but having it popup the file explorer, start menu, system properties etc. at random intervals would be great!

By: IceBrain

IceBrain — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:09:15 +0000

Remember it should only do what a normal mouse or keyboard do, so it doesn’t need special drivers and can be just plugged when nobody is looking.

I would make it type strange “hacky” phrases like “FBI surveillance system activated – recording” or “Illegal activity detected – please keep still and wait for the officers to arrive”.

If you work near the person a hack on a bluetooth keyboard would be better, as you could only strap one of those mini adapters like this: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/adapters/tiny-bluetooth-adapter-is-mostly-usb-smallest-ever-293856.php
Today I saw one with a button for “driverless” pairing :P

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:06:53 +0000

Random:
Alt-f4
Ctrl-alt-del
Windows-M
Num-lock
Mute
Sticky keys (shift 5 times)
Windows-L > sleep. Sleeping takes too long, plus windowsL requires you to type in the password anyway
Random page down/up
Random insert(so ppl ovr their word docs)
Random esc

And that’s all the special function key combos I can think up now

By: beefcake

beefcake — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:30:27 +0000

ideas:

Random disc drive open and close. (always hilarious)

Random change of mouse pointer shape (im thinking dinosaur, or tails)