A turn off?

[RichardCranium]

Works exactly like most software I have come across during my contracting life.

Also works exactly like most women I have failed to come across during my personal life.

[Sysman]

I used a thermal binding machine in the early 1990s which switched itself off after a certain amount of idle time. If you pressed the button after that time was up, it would display a message saying "Please switch me on".

Eh? If it was so intelligent, why couldn't it switch itself on rather than displaying that message?

[NickFitz]

I thought of doing something like that a while back, but I don't really do hardware. I got the idea from a mention of a box that switched itself off in The Soul of a New Machine, but I don't think that one actually had a robot arm, just a circuit that switched it off when it was powered up

[Jeebo72]

It prob. meets the spec though, so job done.

[TimberWolf]

It's not as good as the original.

A machine that turns itself on would be cooler.

[moorfield]

Works exactly like most software I have come across during my contracting life.

[mudskipper]

Linky (SFW)

I want one.