Remote controls: those representatives of a longstanding love-hate relationship between humans and certain kinds of hardware. But all of that is changing.
Smartphones and mobile devices have transformed the lozenges and wands of the old school remote (complete with its endless rows of little and inscrutable buttons) into more efficient, pictorial, intuitive environments.
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