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The Ultimate Reset Button

newlaunches.com — The gigantic red switch looks more like a mushroom straight out of Super Mario. It can be connected easily using two wires and can be activated in any direction. To get rid of the blue screen of death all you have to do is hit it with something (like, a fist).

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  • lolReject, on 10/11/2007, -7/+115I would hook mine up to a very loud siren, flashing red lights, and one of those control panels that require two keys to be unlocked sequentially.
  • prydonian93, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Sweet. Mine has one of those plastic cases the missile firing buttons have, that need and key to unlock.

    It soo Cool!
    • MaxPayne3476, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3:) One of the first PCs I built for a guy was a Cheiftec Matrix that had three different key locks in them, and you had to insert all three keys before you could turn the machine on. It was pretty sick, but damn frustrating!
  • gertin, on 10/11/2007, -4/+82Fortunately most people don't use 95/98/ME anymore.
    • digitallysick, on 10/11/2007, -22/+4@gertin

      Looks like he is using vista in the pictures, he will need to keep the reset button on his desk !
  • Riggs54, on 10/11/2007, -3/+50+Digg if you could set this to bring up the task manager!
    • kevir, on 10/11/2007, -18/+0What? You can easily make it press anything on the keyboard! Keyboard hacks are like, whatever,
      (For the slow, I mean connecting the button to ctrl, alt, and del.)
  • gtawh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+49NO WHAMMIES
  • mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -13/+3Can somebody please explain to me what it means when they say something is after the jump: eg. pictures after the jump.
    • valadares, on 10/11/2007, -12/+1After the jump means that you will jump from one tube to the other tube to check out what is the topic or picture.
      That's how it works here on the internets.
    • postitnote, on 10/11/2007, -3/+49You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
    • illegalamigo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21"After the jump" means after the break in the site content usually reserved for an advertisement.
    • spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30It means the writer is an idiot.
      There are few things that annoy me more than the current trend of putting that phrase in articles.
    • FalseProphecy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3They're all dumb. "After the jump" is when you click "Continue reading>>" or "Read" or something, and it leads you to the page of the article, not just the main page with the first paragraph or two. Advertising doesn't matter.
    • CrushThemTorg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I always figured it was a reference to jumps in print. When there's a story that's like "Continued on page 3," that's a jump. My theory is that it came from political bloggers who wanted to emulate real journalism.

      Also, the more you ponder it, the more you realize "jump" is a disgusting-sounding word.
  • wonkavsn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34Big red buttons should only be reserved for the initiation of self destruct sequences involving a counting down by some female British voice.
    • MonkeyFit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1There was an article on here today about how to make thermite. Perhaps have a small amount of that over the hard drive with the button connected to an electronic ignition.
    • JorgeGT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Only if the abortion message is "Self-destruction aborted. Have a nice day."
      The "have a nice day" part is *crucial* here.
  • desistere, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5A true breakthrough... I can't wait until modders adapt it for online Family Feud play.
  • Spandia, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4this died fast
  • Dunadan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24Would one of those reset buttons help this server get up running again?
  • dpvu, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0Mirrors? This was dead on SlashDot too before it got to Digg...

    EDIT: Looks like it's up again. It's just very slow.
  • nubnub, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1mirror?
  • Xinareiaz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+34I guess someone hit the "Ultimate Reset Button" on the server eh?
  • geekologist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Trends die fast.
  • elpepe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I really want the button from "deal or no deal" on my desk so I can play along at home
  • GeezerD, on 10/11/2007, -20/+3This is the real ultimate reset button:

    http://www.apple.com/getamac/
    • MaxPayne3476, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16if I could digg more then one I'd give you the people's elbow digg into the ground. yawn.

      Wanna good story? I was in the Mac store about a year ago considering a MacBook Pro and the arrogant lady comes up to show me ALL THE AWESOME FEATURES. When she opened Safari, it froze. It just STRAIGHT UP froze (no ***** either). She just kinda laughed closed it and then tried to show me the notebook next to it.
  • shartman, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Stupid!!!!!!!

    buried
  • TRENT310, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4That looks just like any other emergency stop button...hooking it up to a computer is an idea for the use of one, but I don't think it's really all that interesting. (But at the risk of getting a downwards-pointing hand icon thrown at my comment, I'll have to say it wasn't all that bad)
  • grumpyrain, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12> Actually before Windows went mainstream computers had fairly small reset buttons, but with the advent of Windows came the practise of frequent
    > resetting.

    Interesting.

    * My 386 running Dos 5 had three buttons, Power, Reset, and Turbo. They were all exactly the same size.
    * My Celeron 433 running Win98 (Gateway) had two buttons, Power and Reset. The power button was prominant. The reset button was recessed and about half the size of the power.
    * My P4 2.4GHz running XP had two buttons, Power and Reset. The power button was prominant. The reset button was a little mosquito bite.
    * My PM 1.4GHz laptop running XP has only a Power button.

    So my observations are the reverse.
  • ChrisfromNL, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yea, that looks EXACTLY like a Mario mushroom, straight from the game eh?
  • vinnyduke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I guess we'll have to start begging Dell for new Windows 98 computers to make some use of this thing.
  • atrain, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I should get me one of these.... still stuck with 2 bare wires as a power switch...

    Was considering getting a 486 keylock though... greatest power button ever... Nobody messes with your machine. (Get a good lock for the back, a ups hardwired inside, and you have yourself a rock...)
  • withoutashovel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2i think its the new usb 2.0 easy button only found in office depot stores
    • *jooloop*, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I belive you meant staples stores...
  • tektalk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Man... if I had a 50mm camera, some flashing red lights ( like the alert lights in movies), a key, polycarbonate case with lock and key, flip switch, several computer monitors, a machine that opens up when flip switch is activated, and a big red button like that; I would make the world's most bad-ass reset. But I don't have the money or time to do anything like it. : (
  • Sil369, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Looks Fisher-Pricey.
  • bishop9226, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1buried for being lame and having a crap link

  • dopesick, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I'm curious to know....

    1: Why is there 4 wires, when a 2 wire reset button is all thats needed.
    2: Is this REALLY necessary for a reboot switch? I've gotten used to using my foot... (reset switch is pretty large on my PC - as said easrlier same size as power button, oddly enough)
    3: Could he not loom, shrinkwrap, or tape up the fricken wiring? Talke about grade school mod...

    This could be useful, such as a "dongle" style pad, or relocated power, reset, HD, power LED setup on your desktop area, or near the keyboard... THAT would be more useful then his "Fisher-Price, I'm pissed at my PC cause I'm a retard and cant get it to run stable, so I need to punch something reset button".
    *laughing, that run on sentence sounds like the nyquil commercial...
    • estvir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You have no sense of humour, do you ?
    • dopesick, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Sense of Humour, no us humans dont come equipped with that.. However a sense of Humor I do have. And even though it works fine, there is such as thing as being tacky. His mod could be really neat, if it was neat. Which it is not.
  • pcharles23, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2I think the novelty factor with this is totally cool...With macs what this article talks about is unheard of.
    just like a case with a neon and a window? WTF talk about cheesy...

    Now a 24" imac on your desk... That's Some class.! amen.
  • Cyber_Akuma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Could one modify it into a "buried as lame" button?
  • superKduper, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I can't remember the last time I hit the reset on my PC. My mac's another story.

    You have been duped by the Macintosh Homosexual Propaganda machine yet again.
  • fastfood15, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3or buy a mac
  • Brendan371, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1to get rid of the blue screen of death all you have to do is switch to OSX. sry people, but is there still a single person out there who's not retarded to can make an argument for windows (xp or vista) getting less viruses, less system errors, or less crashed programs and/or whole os than osx? i'm not a fanboy, i run both happily, but lets be honest with ourselves.
    • jull1234, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1...
    • tb0n3r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Yes, because OSX *never* crashes, *never* has any problems, and is *perfect* in every way. It's so perfect, there isn't even an Apple Technical Support line. Please.

      Another alternative to get rid of blue screens: don't be an idiot. Install AV software and firewall software (if a hardware firewall isn't available. NATing gateways don't count as firewalls) and keep them updated, keep the windows patches up-to-date, don't muck around with drivers if everything is working fine, use alternate browsers and email readers (with fewer, or at least lesser known, exploits). Using these methods, I haven't seen a blue screen in years on my home machine.
    • unknamed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Did it ever occur to you that the reason Windows appears to have more issues is because it gets used so much more often than OSX?

      If your Windows machine (talking XP and Vista here) is blue screening you don't need a reset button, you need to uninstall whatever it is you just installed because 99% of all BSOD in XP are either a broken hardware driver of some crap software. I've been running the same XP Pro install for two years now and it nevers blue screens. Ever.

      Oh, BTW I tried telling a lady that called yesterday that she must be mistaken when she told me her Mac kept freezing up when she opened her email program because "Macs don't lock up" ...but she didn't buy it.
  • verbose, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Great innovation! Every PC should come with one. I can just see John Hodgman with one strapped to his belly.
  • gerrymac, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0lol, awesome. Wish i had one with my old 98 box. I used to get a sore back from reaching for the power buttton every time windose felt like taking a nap.
  • jull1234, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2If you need this, you're doing something really wrong.
  • assaf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What ever you do, DON'T PUSH THE RED BUTTON!!!
  • trex279, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0That's brilliant. And to think that some computers come now without a reset button... WITHOUT... Wonder how people owning such computers don't go mad
  • misterjangles, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What a great idea - putting a giant red button that instantly restarts my computer right in the middle of my desk. Genius.

    There's a reason the reset button is small, people.
    • crashflow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1what do you mean? its right in the middle of my desk. so, in the actually rare event i have to reset my pc, i can do so without having to get up bend over and press a tiny lil button. now that's convenien....oops

      *crashflow is now offline..
  • Evolve, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Would be a better story if it was about the keyboard.
    What make/model is that?
  • t00bA, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0awesome :)
  • arcom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's nice to hear that one of your own inventions got on the front page of DIGG (even though your own blog didn't get the credit for it).

    As far as the comments are concerned, it looks like a lot of people don't have a sense of humor (congatulations to those who have it!). Do you honestly think that I hit the red button every five minutes or so? I only use it in special occasions when Windows surprises me with a BSOD :-)

    As for the wires, there are only three (3) of them but since the photo was taken with a flash, you can also see the shadows under the wires in which case it looks like more then 3 wires. And no, I couldn't shrink-wrap the wires because I was lazy :-p

    arcom @ www.lifelaboratory.com
  • cburgdorfer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Problems with your operating system?
    - Windows: Re-Boot!
    - Linux: Be Root!
  • HornyFox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0For me, it's more useful a restart button than a reset button.

    install video card drivers ----> push button
    install sound card drivers ----> push button
    install windows updates ----> push button
    install anti virus ----> push button
    uninstall program -----> push button

    and so on...
  • meshman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"The best part is when you have lost your cool with the blue screen of death, just hit the button with your fist to reboot."

    It's been almost 10 years since I've seen a genuine BSOD and it's usually the hardware.
    • Lazaryn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+110 years may be a bit overboard but I certainly haven't had a BSOD for quite a while as well.

      Actually the last BSOD of caused by a script that I wrote to create 10,000 separate directories for storing large amounts of files efficiently--it turned out that the hard drive drivers didn't like it one bit.
  • Managore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I prefer this reset button:

    http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF032AD-Reset.jpg
  • markdr123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Want.
  • rouben, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Definitely should be included in every box of Windows Vista. Kind of useless for Linux users, really. :) I mean, why would I want a big ass red button that screams "push me" that I will have to use once every couple of years?
  • Tormentedsoul25, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0It lookes like a Emergency stop button on a CNC milling machine. Better known as a Oh ***** Button.
  • greenspans, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ultimate linkjack from hhttp://www.lifelaboratory.com/ultimate-pc-reset-button
  • Montrell274, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1resulting in hilarity..
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