The user is hidden from the outside world. Photo / Supplied
The user is hidden from the outside world. Photo / Supplied
American cable television network HBO has gone viral with its low-tech solution for the problem of watching movies and TV on your laptop in a crowded space.
The HBO Box is a large cardboard box that users can place over themselves to create a dark, quiet environment to snatch someprivate screen time.
It has holes cut into the box so that users can stick their legs out, allowing them to fully recline.
Reassuringly, it also features breathing holes.
The entertainment giant teamed up with brand-activation company Fooji to offer the box to US college students, asking young people living in dorm rooms to tell them why they needed the box in order to win one.
This is wonderful. Also, I'm glad they got rid of their "late night" programming because this box would've had an entirely different privacy purpose, especially with that 360° hole! Quote Tweet#HBOBoxChallenge
— AT&WB Podcast🎙✊🏾😷 All About that Warner Synergy (@ZeitChrist) November 5, 2019
Others thought the device was proof of the acceleration of society's breakdown, with user @scotpe tweeting that the box was "the latest sign of the coming apocalypse".
