EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota, October 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Ever notice the flickering glow shining from your neighbor's windows when they are watching television? Burglars use this as a cue that a home is occupied, so they know to move on to another target. But from now on, many would-be thieves are going to be misled by a new burglar deterrent device, FakeTV(TM). A FakeTV simulates the light output of a television, making it look like someone is home watching TV. A built-in computer controls super-bright LEDs to produce light of varying intensity and color that lights up a room just like a real television does. The light effects of real television programming -- scene changes, camera pans, fades, flicks, swells, on-screen motion, and more -- are all faithfully simulated by a FakeTV.

FakeTV was conceived by author and inventor Blaine Readler. My wife and I were going out for the evening. I decided to leave the TV on so that it looked like somebody was still at home. I commented that it was a shame to waste all that electricity, when the burglars couldn't even see the picture itself, just the reflection off the wall. That evening, my mind kept coming back to this. There had to be a cheap way to simulate a television as seen from outside.

Readler partnered with Hydreon Corporation to make his idea a reality. They studied that flickering glow in detail, gathering much data with sophisticated instruments about the exact nature of the intensity and color variations emanating from a real television. News programs, for example, are far more static than dramas, and commercials more dynamic. A sequence of outdoor water scenes may have a bluish cast, a game show set might be reddish, while an animated sequence might explode with color. The result: test subjects were unable to tell the difference between the prototype television simulator and the real thing.

For a would-be burglar, an operating television is always an unwelcome sight. Most burglars would rather move on to a house that appears to be vacant. Unlike light from a lamp on a timer, the light from FakeTV is constantly changing. It gives the impression of life. FakeTV is available in the UK for about 30GBP. FakeTV is a trademark of Hydreon Corporation. For more information visit http://www.faketv.com/uk.

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SOURCE: Hydreon Corporation

CONTACT: Samantha Gore of Sabeoteur Crime Prevention (UK FakeTVDistributor), +44-777-650-835, info@faketv.uk