'HD for Kids!' coloring book

It's difficult to discern how seriously we're supposed to take the "HD for Kids!" coloring book from Non-Toxic Reviews. Ostensibly it's designed to teach kids about HDTV, or perhaps to educate their parents as they follow along, but it's also got a couple of tedious and baffling activities.

One frame encourages kids to "Take your Crayon and draw 480 dots inside this TV," followed by an exhortation to "Take a different color Crayon and draw 1,080 dots inside this HDTV." Not only is that technically wrong — standard-def TVs can display 480 lines, as stated just above in the coloring book — but it also sounds sort of boring.

But here was the one that made me think the whole thing is a joke, a section entitled "Make your own! DLP Projector Television!"

Did this guy really just encourage kids to stare at shiny lights in a mirror until they start to hallucinate? That is fantastic.

The "HD for Kids!" coloring book is available as a free PDF download.

Free coloring book - HD for Kids! [NonToxicReviews.com via Consumerist]

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#1 posted by bardfinn , June 19, 2008 7:23 AM

I concur; Showing kids how to make a (possibly seizure-inducing) flicker strobe is incredibly and deliciously subversive.

#2 posted by CraziestGadgetsdotcom , June 19, 2008 9:06 AM

Once the kids hit around age 12, they know all this technology stuff better than their parents anyway. Now, where did I put my LifeAlert?

#3 posted by EnderQON , June 19, 2008 9:52 AM

Not only that, but what happened to the mysterious step #3?

#4 posted by yasth , June 19, 2008 10:20 AM

Yes they do need step 3 as it is where all the fun happens

3. Use existing microcontrollers to control a rapidly spinning mirror. Use a simple revolution counter to determine that state of the orange juice can, with some work you should be able to match outputs for a wide range of juice can spin speeds. Remember that friction will change as parts wear, so make the friction correction be self adapting. Build a dark enclosure. Develop intake stages for HDTV signal acquisition and decompression. Sadly you will probably not be able to use HDMI due to DRM concerns, but component should be fine.

#5 posted by Stefan Jones