Give me a Technology Connections (@TechConnectify@mas.to) video on it
“I’m about to talk about Christmas lights for an 70 minutes.”
“Hell yeah, bro!”
I like the sounds of the tines! It’s basically just a tuning fork, so wild.
I’m old and still call the remote “the clicker”. My 7 year old wondered what the heck a clicker is.
Cue old dad “back in my day, the remotes actually clicked” story.
@reverendz @dingus, when I was young, I was the remote
Our first tv with a remote control that wasn’t me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv.
Like this was in 1982 so not a modem … just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.
I had a Heathkit TV that used a variation of this design! If you held it really close to your ear then you could actually hear it emitting.
This was mentioned a couple of weeks ago on the Vergecast. I was wondering if someone was going to get assigned the article, and here it is!