IMAGE: A Samsung remote control that uses radio frequency energy harvesting and therefore needs no batteries, on a white background
IMAGE: Samsung

Finally, a remote control that doesn’t run out of batteries

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
2 min readJan 5, 2022

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Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).

Last year, the company launched a remote control powered by photovoltaic energy using home lighting, in the same way pocket calculators have done for some time, along…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)