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Ode to the remote control, that tiny box that lets you channel your desires without ever getting up

If the TV remote hadn't been invented, channel surfers and couch potatoes would have to argue about something else.

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致遥控器,这个小小的盒子让你无需起身就能掌控一切。

Remotes using infrared signals emerged in the 1980s when, with the dawn of cable's multichannel universe, the device became indispensable. — AP

CROTON-ON-HUDSON : If the TV remote hadn’t been invented, channel surfers and couch potatoes would have to argue about something else. Come to think of it, those surfers and potatoes might not even exist.

It may be difficult for anyone under 40 to understand, but there was a time when changing a channel meant getting up, walking over to the "television set” and turning a "dial.”

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