Skipr wants to make television commercials a thing of the past

TECHi's Author Lorie Wimble
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Individual commercials can be funny from time to time bu the vast majority of the ads that were bombarded with regularly are annoying and almost always get ignored or disregarded. Most of us just spend the couple of minutes during commercial breaks doing something else like checking our phones or what not, which is what a startup known as Skipr wants to do for you automatically. 

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A startup called Skipr wants to cover up all the commercials you see on TV, replacing them with things you’d actually want to watch. The product is still in development, but one of the developers has posted some details on Reddit: Skipr will monitor any cable or satellite TV signal and auto-detect advertisements. When the commercial break starts, Skipr will switch to content of your choosing, such as social media updates, the weather, a screensaver, or music. You could also have it switch to a different game during sports broadcast. In other words, it’s kind of like changing the channel when a commercial break starts, but with content specifically made to fill those few minutes. Skipr is supposed to then automatically switch back to your original show when the commercial break ends.

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