In yesterday's "Talk About a Multitasking Device. PDA Turns on Magic Chef Range in Brooklyn," we told you the tale of a Magic Chef oven whose broiler turned on when the owner's Sony Ericsson PDA received a call. We've all come to expect our cell phones to do more than ever, but this apparent capability is one feature to do without.
Yesterday, according to this report from New York radio station 1010 WINS, a repairman from manufacturer Maytag went to Andrei Melnikov's home and explained that the range requires a suppressor to keep the PDA from firing up the broiler. A spokesman for Whirlpool, which owns Maytag, told the CBS affiliate in New York City that the company had just become aware of Melnikov's problem and was checking out the issue.
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Maytag is no longer Maytag. This oven may be a Whirlpool underneath with a Maytag sticker on it; so if you own Whirlpool it may have the same electronics and react to your PDA in the same manner. It will be interesting to see if Whirlpool has the same problem.
I have a Logitech Harmony Remote Control programmed to operate my Vizio HDTV. My wife sometimes gets upset sometimes when I press the ON button on the remote because it sleeps her MacBook.
I have a 19" Philips HDTV in my kitchen that occasionally would turn itself on for some unknown reason. I simply moved the television's remote control farther away from the television and that seems to have resolved the problem.
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