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The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist.
These were so cool. Didn’t they work by the pitch omitted? When a mechanical lever struck a plate that emitted a tone. The tv then receives the tone and completes the task.
Weird I think I saw a YT video explaing it and this is the info I remembered
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TV remotes back then used to be so heavy. As a kid when no one was around I used to lay flat on my back and toss the remote in the air over my head and catch it while I was listening to whatever show was on. The remote was about the same weight as a baseball.
One time I missed the catch and it (very predictably) hit me in the face. When I showed up to school the next day with a black eye, the teacher thought I was being abused. It didn’t help that my story was so stupid…
yep i’ve used one. inside is like a xylophone for dogs.
We took my grandma’s TV when she bought a new one, it was one of these.
Our dog had one of those steel choker chains, and he’d often change the channel or turn the TV on/off by running around jingling it.
I remember as a kid in the early 80s, we still had a VCR that had a remote with a cord. It was like 3 buttons or something. We also had a Beta machine in the garage for a while from before I was born.