Apart from ignoring the fact that you're a moron, and obviously have never looked or even imagined the wattage needed to run a TV or electronic device...

Why are you feeding them McDonalds instead of cooking them dinner? Or even looking for more healthy solutions? Why can you not form the rules for playing the systems yourself, instead of relying on expensie governers? Your kids, or these imaginary kids you think of, must be terribly behaved.

People like you are the reason kids are, and are going to have increasing amounts of problems as the years go on. You people are the ones screwing up your kids, not MTV, not violent video games, not rap music.

Wow, the first comment was a tad abusive. I like the idea, perhaps the accumulated wattage acts like a timer and not the entire power source -- so you earn your minutes. This could work for controlling internet usage as well.

Why do some people focus on how an idea mighr fail instead of how it might work?

No doubt that it would HAVE to be used as a gateway, rather than an entire generator by itself. If you had actually paid attention to what I wrote "wizard1961" (Geez, I hope you're not late 40s. That'd be sad) you'd have seen that I specifically mentioned that in an aside. My main poinds *obviously* lie in the bad parenting of "swang01." This specific idea WILL fail, it can be made to work; but in the end, it's an expensive and annoying excuse for poor parenting skills. That's what I focus on, I'm sorry that despite your years, you seem to lack a very basic understanding of cause and effect.

Also, there are items already out there that do exactly this.

This is a great idea, but it has already been done. The exercise bike I saw generates the electricity for running a small TV. Attach your video game of choice and you have what you are proposing.

Great Idea! Already been done. But Keep Posting your ideas!!!