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[tt3]

My idea is simply to have a button on the side of a TV which makes your remote control beep when pressed. It's a simple way to find it and I can't believe it hasn't been done!

[moldboy]

You know I have been thinking of things like that for the longest time, but my problem was would happen if you lost the remote finding remote? But a button on the side of the TV, that's a great idea. But be forwarned, some closed minded people are going to say (or think) "well if I have to walk all the way to my tv why not just change the channel?"
Um, Hello, interactive program guides, advanced features, pluss you'd have to get up every time you wanted to change the channel, (my what A lazy society we've become)

[Albus Dumbledore]

well the funny thing is, there is a such thing....it is an external thing, but i am sure it can be built into the remote, but a few years back i was always loosing the remote controll and so my parents went to walmart and got somthing that was designed for it, and what you do is basicly velcro this small thing to the back of the remote controll...not velcro but somthing stronger, and then you have somthing that you can put wherever you wanted, and for us we taped it to the wal above the couch and whenever i couldn't find the remote controll i hit the button and hold on to it and it would beep beep beep, lol anyways, there is a such product out there!

[anwiii]

tt3, on Mar 27 2006, 01:39 PM, said:

My idea is simply to have a button on the side of a TV which makes your remote control beep when pressed. It's a simple way to find it and I can't believe it hasn't been done!

while your up pushing the the button on the t.v. to find the remote control so you can change the channel, can you please press button 4? conan obrian is on and he's cool.

good luck finding that remote too...

[Inspiron]

moldboy, on Mar 28 2006, 06:59 AM, said:

"well if I have to walk all the way to my tv why not just change the channel?"

Yeah I agree with this, how still we need to find back the remote control. We cannot let it go missing still. This type of idea actually is very simple, but it was not implemented. Actually this feature will be very useful. It could be used for air-cons also. But definately not for cars.

[trace-uk]

I think the next step for remote controls is to get a "universal remote" that would work your tv, dvd player, sky channels etc. At the moment I've got 4 remotes lying around!

I like that idea though, its very simple. Trouble is theres so many thing that beep in your home already

[ankitunlimited]

I have a universal remote from Sony, dont like it very much, the fact is ever since it has come into the house, there is so much of fighting.

I have the Universal remote, and my bro the original remote (you can think of what happens next)

Edited by ankitunlimited, 29 March 2006 - 05:36 AM.

[antwill]

The funny thing is that on my VCR there is a little tiny switch that you can turn on and when the remote remains inactive after a long long time (say, if you lost the remote) then it will beep. Also when reading the top post, well the very first one then i remembered something i saw on the Ellen show or something. There was a kids invention section of the show and this little boy had built something that looked like a doorbell button to the TV and there was a box (receiver) on the remote. So when you pressed the button you could hear where the remote is.

[Furipon]

hahaha omg! that is an AWESOME idea! why hasn't anyone come up wit h that before??
I wou probably need one anyway... -.-'

[42ndEndOfTheWorld]

Well, I like your idea, very inventive. However I feel that we do not really need something like that. I mean, TV made everyone dumber than ever, we do not need to make watching TV easier than it is now.