Wow, those are all great answers.

So, now the question is, what type of state indicator/button would
help solve these issues?  For the baby monitor, would it be helpful to
have an obvious volume level indicator?

I completely understand the camera example.. My little digital
point-and-shoot does the same thing and it can be quite confusing..
especially when the screen turns off and I hand the camera to somebody
else, they always think it's off.

On 10/11/07, Alok Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can think of two right now:
>
> 1. Baby Monitors - It's more about whether volume is high enough and
> if the channel selected is correct or not
> 2. Canon xti camera has two indicators for on/off state - position of
> a physical switch and a led light, the problem happens because of
> sleep function in which case the light goes off, but the physical
> switch is at on position.  Even worse the led lights up for a few
> seconds when the switch is moved to off position.
>
> -AJ
>
> On Oct 11, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Chris Borokowski wrote:
>
> > --- "Scharn, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>> Can anybody think of a case where the current on/off state of a
> >> device
> >> isn't immediately obvious?
>
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