Future Google Tv Devices Might Come With A Solar-powered Remote

Companies making Google TV devices could soon see remotes that won’t ever request caller disposable batteries. | Image: Epishine

Epishine, a institution that makes star cells optimized for indoor lighting, has announced its exertion is being utilized successful a new distant power for Google TV devices, arsenic spotted by 9to5Google. The distant will trust connected rechargeable batteries alternatively of disposable ones, and acknowledgment to nan usage of star cells connected some sides it whitethorn only tally retired of powerfulness erstwhile it gets buried and forgotten successful nan acheronian abyss of your sofa cushions.

The caller distant is made by Ohsung Electronics, which is an charismatic Google reference distant supplier. Companies making Google TV streaming boxes aliases dongles tin creation their ain distant controls from scratch, but they tin besides usage Google’s reference distant designs arsenic a shortcut to accelerate their hardware development. Walmart’s Onn devices, for example, see remotes based connected Google’s designs.

The caller star powered action utilizing Epishine’s exertion will beryllium known arsenic nan G32 reference remote, but it’s not being bundled pinch immoderate Google TV devices conscionable yet, and you can’t acquisition it connected its own. Existing versions of Google’s reference remotes see nan G10 pinch 22 buttons and nan G20 pinch 38 buttons, but companies tin customize these designs to supply speedy entree to streaming platforms too celebrated options for illustration Netflix and YouTube. 

It’s not nan first clip a distant power has included a star compartment to support it powered indefinitely. Last twelvemonth Hama announced a cosmopolitan distant utilizing Exeger’s Powerfoyle star compartment technology, and years agone Samsung released a star remote for its ain TVs. But nan exertion could perchance go much commonplace now that Google has made it overmuch easier for smaller companies to implement.