These days Samsung offers all kinds of products and technological innovations. The Infinity TV Remote Control is one of the most interesting and exciting gadgets we've seen so far.
Samsung says about 50 million tons of electronic devices are discarded each year. And only 17% of these materials are recycled.
Since we are in the age of the environment, where all the big companies and organizations are striving to stop climate change, the Samsung team has not hesitated to introduce its new products that focus on this purpose.
Among the most notable inventions, today we focus on the remote control presented by Samsung, which does not require batteries because it takes advantage of a really old technology, but until now, it was not known how to implement it in these gadgets.
Samsung says that, assuming a typical TV has been in use for about seven years, changing the batteries in the remote control only once a year means that 14 batteries will be used and disposed of every seven years.
If we apply this number to Samsung Electronics' annual TV sales, that number will be about 99 million discarded batteries. They point out that if we apply it to annual sales of TVs in general, it adds up to approximately 3,100 million batteries.
This is a problem, so instead of using lithium batteries, which are polluting and very expensive due to their scarcity, Samsung has considered creating controls using a self-charging battery.
For this, several charging methods were considered, including one that made use of the kinetic energy that is generated when the control is vibrated, and another that makes use of the vibrational energy that is created when the microphone picks up sounds.
But, in the end, it was decided to use a solar cell. To this they added some small solar panels, which only need the light entering the room, however tiny it may be, to recharge the battery.
The problem with this solution is that for the remote control to work, it has to consume really little. Much less than they consume now.
This led to engineers creating a low-power remote control rather than looking for ways to increase power output. The Samsung team succeeded in increasing the energy efficiency of the remote control by reducing power consumption by 86%.
To do this, they took into account users' TV viewing patterns, the number of times they pressed buttons on the remote control and the time of use.
According to the researchers, if disposable cells were replaced by self-charging solar cell batteries, 6000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be eliminated annually.
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