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Missing Remote Inspires Teen

By on February 26, 2013 in Ideas

Lily McCauley could never find the remote in her home. Sick of looking, she created a way to track it and entered it into the Bendigo Inventor Awards, reports Bendigo Advertiser.

“I got sick of looking for the remote in the ironing basket or under the couch. When I want to watch TV I just want to flick the remote, I don’t want to have to look for the remote.”

Lily said the tracer was very simple. “It’s just a two-piece device. You have one part that’s the sensor and you connect that to the remote and the other part of the main sensor.

“That has the button on it and you just click the button and find the remote player and you have a sensor that’s connected.”

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  • Nan

    Uh, what happens when you misplace the tracer? I’m sure somebody will come up with a tracer for the tracer. Is this really a problem that needs solving? I have an idea – stop watching television! You’ll never worry about where your remote is!

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    I like Lily’s idea, but it would benefit from a little extra planning. Like Nan said, what does happen when the tracer is lost?

    If the tracer was similar to the paging system for a home phone it may work. The phone has a base that doesn’t move. When the phone is lost, the base stays put. Just push the button on the base, and the phone starts beeping. Creating a home base for the remote, and attaching a tracer would work in a similar way. The base has no reason to move. Just push the button on the base, and the remote can be tracked.

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