My wife got me a Clapper as a joke for Christmas, and I just got around to trying it last night. I hooked it up to the lamp on my nightstand, with visions of turning that puppy on and off like there’s no tomorrow.

In the commercial, they have old people clapping away. Note the speed in which they clap, and keep in mind that they may not be able to clap loudly due to arthritis, missing hands, etc…

There is NO WAY in hell that those old people could ever make use of this thing. In the commercial, they only clap twice, with the claps very close together. In reality, if you only have one thing plugged in, you need to clap 3 times. Each clap needs to be precisely separated by approximately 1 second of silence. WTF! Checkout that old lady at the end of the commercial in bed ( NSFW! ), and tell me she waited 1 second in between claps. She seems pretty angry to begin with, and I can only imagine how pissed off she’d be in the real world when it takes her like 10 minutes to get the claps timed just right. At that point, she would probably be better grabbing her shotgun and just blowing a hole through the TV to turn it off for good. We’ve been had people. This thing makes it much harder to turn things on and off, not the opposite as advertised. At this point, I think we should all write our congressman.

It actually was incredibly difficult to make this thing work. I would have to say that it took on average 15 attempts to get this thing to do it’s magic. Another plus is that if you have a light plugged into this thing, the ONLY way to make it turn on is via the clapper…that would probably come in handy when you think you hear a prowler. By the time you get the light to clap on, he’ll probably be driving away from your house with all your AS SEEN ON TV goodies in his back seat (except for your precious clapper!).

On a different note, what do you think would happen if you got 2 clappers, plugged one into the wall, the 2nd clapper into the first, and then plugged a lamp in? If you got the clapping just right, I bet it would rip a hole in the fabric of space, and kill us all (please don’t try this at home!)

In closing, I would highly recommend taking the money you were going to spend on a clapper and put it towards that chia-pet you’ve been wanting.