Zenith Space Command
Zenith Space Command
The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist.
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TV remotes back then used to be so heavy. As a kid when no one was around I used to lay flat on my back and toss the remote in the air over my head and catch it while I was listening to whatever show was on. The remote was about the same weight as a baseball.
One time I missed the catch and it (very predictably) hit me in the face. When I showed up to school the next day with a black eye, the teacher thought I was being abused. It didn't help that my story was so stupid...
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yep i've used one. inside is like a xylophone for dogs.
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Is it an acoustic remote?
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yea but the notes are super high pitch
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We took my grandma's TV when she bought a new one, it was one of these.
Our dog had one of those steel choker chains, and he'd often change the channel or turn the TV on/off by running around jingling it.
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As a teenager I accidentally discovered clinking a handful of coins would also do it.
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I found one of these in an estate sale. I still have it and it's incredible. The sound when you mash the button all the way down that triggers the tuning forks is so weird and satisfying.
I just looked and saw these go for about $200 US today. WOW!!
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This is a repost. If i remember right, the original post a few months ago explained a dew things about that remote. Like, for example, how each of the buttons mechanically creates an sound signal that the TV reacts to.
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Let me check I founded this on Reddit.
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Maybe this https://lemm.ee/post/2475444. But Image got deleted.
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Hah, we had a TV with one of those when I was a little kid. I remember the TV would sometimes hear just the right tone from its own speaker and change the channel. The buttons on the remote did have a very satisfying click, though.
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Wow beautiful. Were they metal?
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These were so cool. Didn’t they work by the pitch omitted? When a mechanical lever struck a plate that emitted a tone. The tv then receives the tone and completes the task.
I think it's a noise in the ultrasound spectrum. Humans can't hear it
Na it made a click, that’s why we call remotes ‘clickers’
They were essentially an ultrasonic kalimba