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Here's the Easiest Way to Check if Your TV Remote's Batteries Are Dead

While infrared light isn’t visible to our eyes, most cameras can see IR light just fine. This means that you can easily point ...
WPXI

11 Investigates: Dangers of remote control batteries

TARENTUM, Pa. — Battery-powered devices are all around us, but many people forget they can present a fire danger. Carolyn Supansic was shaken by the fire that could have killed her brother and ...
SlashGear

How To Replace The Battery In Your Apple TV Remote

The Apple TV Remote has been a constant companion to the Apple TV lineup since the inception of the product back in 2007. Over the past decade and a half, Apple has updated the Apple TV lineup several ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Batteries in remote control can overheat

Description: Power Functions IR Speed remote controls sold separately and as a part of the Emerald Night Train kit (Item K10194) and Power Functions kit (Item K8882). The gray plastic remote controls ...
Wired

Wind-up Remote Ditches Batteries

A wind-up remote control that doesn't need batteries -- why didn't anyone think of this before? Remote controls are relatively low-powered devices, and Gizoo's $38 wind-up universal remote control ...