the.com/remote control
The device that turns walking across a room into a moral failure.
means A handheld device that lets you operate a TV or other electronics from a distance, usually without leaving the couch.
from From 'remote,' meaning far off, and 'control,' meaning to direct or regulate — together describing exactly what it does: direct a machine from far off. The compound phrase emerged in the 20th century alongside the technology itself, first for industrial and military devices operated at a distance, before settling into living rooms with the rise of television.
- lost more
- than any object in couch cushion history
- original name
- lazy bones, invented in 1950 by zenith
- infrared era
- required pointing it like a tiny gun
- button paradox
- the one you need always wears off first