Control this

This one is about the thing that we all take advantage of everyday the television remote. I wondered who thought of the crazy thing in the first place and whether or not it was necessity or just plain laziness that was the source of its creation. Well I went to Google to hunt down the answer. First funny fact I found out was that the concept for the remote control acutely predates the TV itself. The TV specific remote however was credited in the 1950s in which one model used ultrasound frequencies to change the channels and to change the volume. When you would hit the button to take the action it would make a clicking sound and thus the remote control was forever known as the clicker. The ultrasound remote had one disadvantage though other high frequencies could also change the station. In one funny case a child’s play toy actually changed the TV station. The remote that we recognize today I was first seen in 1977 to accommodate the BBCs Teletext system. Today however the remote has evolved into the universal remote which can not only control our TVs but our kitchen bathroom and sometimes our fellow humans. Well maybe not our fellow humans but it’s a thought.