Samsung's new Eco Remote charges via Wi-Fi — forget AA batteries

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No more digging for AA batteries: At CES 2022, Samsung unveiled its brand new Eco Remote, the get-go remote that can wirelessly accuse past using your router.

The company's showtime Eco Remote, introduced at CES concluding yr, provided consumers with a cool new solar-powered charging option. But this year's Eco Remote sports a truly significant upgrade. By harvesting RF energy from your Wi-Fi router, the remote completely removes the demand for whatever type of traditional batteries.

Equally a matter of fact, the Eco Remote doesn't even take a battery of any type within its casing. Instead, it contains a capacitor that is capable of storing small-scale amounts of energy that it gathers from any two.4-GHz RF signals within twoscore meters. That's quite a solid amount of coverage, meaning that this applied science is a step higher up other wireless charging options regularly used for smart phones and other small devices.

The new Eco Remote also supports the aforementioned solar charging option. This ways that, if for some reason your router is off or you're otherwise unable to pick upward the RF signal, the remote tin can still exist charged by placing it face downward under a lamp or other major lighting source.

Nosotros can't recall any other consumer device harvesting energy using RF, although concepts have been talked almost in the past. Never having to charge your remote or change its batteries may sound similar a minor extra convenience, only life is hard enough sometimes, so nosotros'll take what nosotros tin become, correct?

Unlike last year'south Eco Remote, which just came in black, Samsung's new Eco Remote comes in blackness or white and is created using recycled materials. The remote will ship with all of Samsung'south 2022 QLED 4K and 8K TVs.

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