CES 2022: Samsung’s new Eco Remotes draw energy from radio waves

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Samsung’s TV remotes have been making some main eco-friendly strides in recent times. Final 12 months the electronics big added a solar panel to the back so the distant can cost from the solar whereas sitting in your lounge, and now it is taking issues a step additional. For 2022 the corporate added a brand new function for its controllers: radio frequency harvesting. 

Introduced alongside Samsung’s latest TV updates, the distant will nonetheless have the ability to draw energy from the solar through 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 let you frequently maintain your distant absolutely charged whether or not you are watching TV through the day or at evening (or presumably when you maintain your TV in an space with little daylight).

As with the prior distant, the brand new Eco Distant shall be made with a “recycled materials design.” It’ll even be out there in a brand new white shade along with final 12 months’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 shall be included with all of its 2022 TVs.