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If you haven’t yet wrapped up your Christmas shopping, you may want to consider building [AlanFromJapan’s] implementation of the ever-classic “Clapper”. With its theme song burned into the brain of ...

The Clapper is one of those weird devices that is fun to use even if it's a sure sign of absolute laziness. To counter the laziness, you can build one yourself. Hacker and blogger Alan did it on the ...

Home automation isn’t all that new. It is just more evolved. Many years ago, a TV product appeared called the Clapper. If you haven’t heard of it, it was basically a sound-operated AC switch. You plug ...

In Q&A, James Clapper addresses controversy, makes small talk about martinis. — -- America’s top intelligence official said that while he “made a mistake” when describing the National Security ...