| Today sitting on a couch, we can flip through | | | | detected by the T.V. receiver. The appearance of |
| hundreds of T.V. channels, tune the T.V. to suit | | | | T.V. remote controls has also undergone many |
| our requirements and perform a host of other | | | | developments. From the bulky awkward boxes of |
| operations without moving an inch. The T.V. | | | | the 50s, remotes evolved into the familiar peanut |
| remote control has become an indispensable | | | | and the slim rectangular shapes with round or |
| gadget. The first T.V. remote, called Lazy Bones, | | | | rectangle-shaped buttons. In 2006, remotes have |
| was made in 1950 by the Zenith Corporation. It | | | | become even more high-tech, with streamlined, |
| had a wire attached to it, which connected it to a | | | | easy-to-hold shapes and backlit LCD screens that |
| motor inside the T.V. By pressing the buttons on | | | | display exhaustive menus of options. In fact, the |
| the remote, viewers could move the motor in a | | | | new T.V. remote is more like a hand-held |
| clockwise or counterclockwise direction to move | | | | computer than a remote control device. |
| up or down channels. But the remote wire caused | | | | Intelligent T.V. remotes are in vogue today. These |
| plenty of accidents, with people constantly tripping | | | | remote controls can interconnect appliances like |
| over them.Subsequent developments led to the | | | | your television and your computer; they even |
| manufacture of the wireless remote, which used | | | | have digital program guides and activity control |
| ultrasonic sound, and then the modern T.V. | | | | features that let them automatically switch on the |
| remote, which uses infrared light to send signals | | | | T.V. when you put on the DVD player. With such |
| to the T.V. The low-frequency infrared light is | | | | smart T.V. remote controls, you can wield great |
| invisible to the human eye and can only be | | | | power from your couch. |