hit and fix: thinking about an interface

what do you do when your television starts going out of its breath. my grandmom and mom used to hit its side, then its top, several times. and their experiences tell that this method works!

of course i dont know about nowadays when the digital television has taken over the US standard. also i dont know how people try to fix anything when tv series are "tivoed" and downloaded. so not-so-surprisingly noone attempts to fix any electronics by smashing it. there is no "real-time" signal coming into your idiot box and no urgency to watch it now now NOW. also we are way too educated to know otherwise.

but i still believe whatever my mom did work the best. while a result of hitting is random, it has a high probability of fixing the object. the interface is not between an object and my mom's hand, but lies within my mom's heart which prays for a renewed life of black and white tv. a weird concept, but it bleeds old and cozy yet fresh scent of secondhanded technology.