A resident of the Chinese city of Shenzhen has modified his home television so that every ten minutes, viewing is interrupted and his child must answer school questions correctly, infohub.kz reports.
According to the South China Morning Post, the man works as a taxi driver and had long struggled with his teenage son's habit of spending hours in front of a screen instead of preparing for lessons. The father first set up a smart plug to switch the device off on a timer, but the boy quickly found a way around it and simply began unplugging it from the socket.
The man then turned to an artificial intelligence app for advice. The program suggested creating a special digital key with questions and helped him write the necessary code.
The father refined the system he had developed and installed it directly on the television. Every ten minutes, broadcasting is blocked and a task in Chinese, mathematics or English appears on the screen. All the questions are tied to the teenager's current school curriculum. If the student answers incorrectly, the system issues an additional task, and viewing resumes only after the correct solution.
The innovation unexpectedly captivated the child, and the father is already planning to gradually increase the difficulty of the tasks. The man stressed that he did not seek to completely ban his son from resting, but turned the restrictions into a kind of game.
The Chinese man's experience has drawn the attention of other parents, who are now asking him to release detailed instructions on how to set up the equipment.