CASIO remote control watch!!!
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Casio has brought out this watch with a remote control. It is a “learning” remote, which means that you can “teach” it to control to your very own TV & DVD player.
Last year we rented our apartment out to some tenants, fully furnished. We ended up evicting them (another story/post) and they took our remote control with them.
Since that time we found that we desperately needed a remote control because DVD players these days have a lot less buttons than the remote control. We wanted to change the language (to Chinese) on some of the DVDs that we own. The buttons to do so are only present on the remote, not the player.
So we purchased a Crest remote control. Generally we’re very happy with it. One difficulty is that the process of adding an unlisted code presupposes us having the old remote control on hand to locate “pause” or whatever it is on that one before putting it on the new one. I don’t know whether this problem is faced with every universal control or with this very special looking Casio watch.
Having a remote control watch opens up all sorts of lifestyle questions… Who would it be most useful for? Does it encourage excessive TV use? Is it a breakthrough item for people with disabilities?
