Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/27/scientist-builds-remote-contro.html
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The title alone had me grinning from ear to ear.
I am not a good person.
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You try that kind of shit with me, I’ll show you the true meaning of fear and terror.
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Just like a recliner except someone else gets to decide. Might be fun for the person at the switch.
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You want to talk chair fear? This is chair fear:
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There’s always been a very fine line between legitimate psychological research devices and novelty gags.
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I’d think both could exist in the same space… and that’s when it’s sweet!
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David St. Hubbins: It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh…
Nigel Tufnel: Clever.
David St. Hubbins: Yeah, and clever.
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An earlier prototype.
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This reminds me of a study I was doing in this old house I was renting out as a airbnb, when the chair collapsed a hole would open up in the floor showing a bunch of rusty spikes with corpses decaying on them and I would run into the room through a secret door, screaming and waving a machete while wearing a mask made out of their best friend’s face!
The gains that were made for science on each test were amazing.
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My Google-fu is failing me…
But I recall a study from some years ago, a legit medical study with the results captured on video.
The subjects were put in a safety harness so they wouldn’t actually fall.
They were then invited to walk toward a clearly visible stumbling block and asked to trip over it.
That’s where the tricky part came in.
The researchers wanted actual stumbles, not deliberate near-falls, so they had a remotely controlled block that popped up, well in front of, the decoy stumbling block.
It worked quite well, as memory of watching the video serves.
I just wish I could find it to link here.
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does not really beat the bucket pitched on an open door but that requires the licence to wet/moisten/dampen somebody
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Puritans. REAL men! All hands-on. No candy-ass remote-control for them. Nope.
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…that’s a bit over the top 
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I’m pretty sure that’s the Puritan version of a remote control, the head Puritan stands there with a Puritan woman he is putting the moves on while ordering his servant to do the dunking.
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C’mon! Stupid-hatted, buckle-shoed, misogynistic Puritans have always been righteously dumped on… but don’t take this away from them!
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In most cases the subjects cried out, and some called the experimenter by name.
As a scientist, I aspire to this level of deviousness.
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