The Electronics Industry is Keeping me Up at Night 2

Do you know what this is?

You might think it’s a red dwarf, or a telescopic shot of Venus on one of rare occasions it is visible from earth. No. This is actually just this with the lights turned off.

What the hell is going on here? Can someone explain to me why an electric razor needs to also be a functioning flashlight? I’m really tired of waking up in the middle of the night after dreaming about alien abductions and international diamond heisting only to see these giant magnified lights shining into my grill like an infrared scope. If you take Ambien, you’re pretty much in a Universal Studios ride at this point.

Can someone explain why this is happening? Are these lights at all necessary? When is the last time this happened to you: You need desperately to shave at midnight, but don’t feel like wasting energy by turning on the lights, so you locate you electric razor based on the light that burns 24-7, and proceed to shave in the dark.

I have actually considered putting a baby monitor on all of my electronic devices, because I don’t feel that the lights are enough. I might actually hire some Hell’s Angels to just wake me up by popping off a few rounds every half hour – thereby alerting me that my various household products are indeed still functioning – as the gunshots will be the signal that we’ve agreed on.

It is becoming ridiculous. Here are some other photos I took from around my house:

Oh man, how innovative! This router has like ten lights on it! It must be a real quality product! Let alone nobody has any idea what these lights signify, and they aren’t even labeled.

This DVD player cost eleven dollars, but they certainly didn’t skimp on the light. I would also like to point out that this player does not feature a MENU button, a SKIP, FAST FORWARD or REWIND button, or any other feature one would prefer to have on a DVD player – but it does have a completely pointless light to let you know how fancy it is.

As someone who has dealt with insomnia in the past, I find these lights to be extremely annoying, and the LED screen on my new air conditioner has taken my frustration to a new level. This machine is clearly the Rolls Royce of needless illumination. I’ve actually had to do some MacGyver work on it so that my room doesn’t look like a 70’s disco:

So what can we take away from all this? People are stupid and equate shiny lights with superior technology and innovation. The electronics manufacturers recognize this, so they put a bunch of lights on their stuff, and I get annoyed. Its a waste of energy, and its probably adding a negligible amount of money to the cost of our products.

I think they should stop doing it.