Samsung’s new 2022 Eco Remote for TVs.
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Samsung’s TV remotes have been making some main eco-friendly strides in recent times. Last yr the electronics big added a photo voltaic panel to the again so the distant can cost from the solar whereas sitting in your front room, and now it is taking issues a step additional. For 2022 the corporate added a brand new characteristic for its controllers: radio frequency harvesting.
Announced alongside Samsung’s newest TV updates, the distant will nonetheless be capable to draw energy from the solar in the course of the day however may also pull small quantities of energy from radio waves from issues like your Wi-Fi router. Samsung says this RF harvesting ought to permit you to regularly preserve your distant absolutely charged whether or not you are watching TV in the course of the day or at night time (or presumably for those who preserve your TV in an space with little daylight).
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As with the prior distant, the brand new Eco Remote will probably be made with a “recycled materials design.” It may also be obtainable in a brand new white colour along with final yr’s black.
The distant may have a minimalist design with a microphone for voice management and shortcuts for Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video and Samsung’s TV Plus.
Samsung says that the brand new distant will probably be included with all of its 2022 TVs.