Samsung’s New TV Remote Uses Your Router’s Radio Waves to Stay Charged

I didn’t assume one of many coolest issues at CES 2022 could be a distant. And but, right here we’re. Thanks, Samsung. Seriously although, Samsung’s new distant is fairly rattling neat.

Let’s backtrack for a second to CES 2021. There, Samsung launched an Eco Remote that saved photo voltaic power which was used to recharge an inner battery. This 12 months’s mannequin, together with utilizing photo voltaic power, can convert routers’ radio waves into power, making certain it stays totally charged.

Radio waves from routers normally go unused as a result of they’d solely be good for very low-power units. It seems, a distant is a perfect candidate—you don’t want a lot power to make use of it, and it stays dormant for lengthy stretches, permitting it to recharge.

Harvesting radio waves isn’t a brand new concept, however the method hardly ever makes its method into precise merchandise you and I can use. Now, the distant can’t function on RF power alone; the upgraded Eco Remote additionally makes use of photo voltaic power from both out of doors or indoor gentle and has a USB-C port as a backup.

As Samsung famous with the earlier mannequin, utilizing solar energy alone might stop 99 million batteries from being discarded over seven years, or the typical lifetime for a TV.

Aside from its eco-friendliness and skill to cost in a wide range of methods, the Eco Remote is a distant like every other. On the entrance are all of your customary buttons, together with shortcuts to fashionable streaming companies like Disney+, Netflix, and Prime Video. And whereas we’re speaking about saving the surroundings, the Eco Remote is product of recycled supplies, and this 12 months, it is available in a recent white coloration.

Best of all, the Eco Remote isn’t only a advertising scheme designed to extend goodwill; Samsung says that the brand new distant might be included with all of its 2022 TVs.