Zenith Space Command --- fully mechanical and wireless
Zenith Space Command --- fully mechanical and wireless
"By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency. "
I had a TV with an ultrasonic remote. It was a nightmare. Whenever I moved the curtains, random things happened with the TV, including the volume hitting a 10 in the middle of the night...
2maybe still better than the flashlight/photocell types!
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And that's where the term "clicker" came from, as opposed to the more modern "remote".
1I had one of these TVs when I was a kid, it came from my grandparents' house when they got a new one. We also had a dog that wore a steel-linked choker collar, and the TV channels would change, or the TV would turn on an off when he ran around and jangled the collar.
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