Epishine, an organization that makes photo voltaic cells optimized for indoor lighting, has introduced its expertise is being utilized in a new remote control for Google TV devices, as spotted by 9to5Google. The distant will depend on rechargeable batteries as an alternative of disposable ones, and because of using photo voltaic cells on each side it might solely run out of energy when it will get buried and forgotten at the hours of darkness abyss of your sofa cushions.
The brand new distant is made by Ohsung Electronics, which is an official Google reference distant provider. Firms making Google TV streaming packing containers or dongles can design their very own distant controls from scratch, however they’ll additionally use Google’s reference distant designs as a shortcut to speed up their {hardware} improvement. Walmart’s Onn devices, for instance, embrace remotes primarily based on Google’s designs.
The brand new photo voltaic powered choice utilizing Epishine’s expertise can be often known as the G32 reference distant, however it’s not being bundled with any Google TV gadgets simply but, and you’ll’t buy it by itself. Current variations of Google’s reference remotes embrace the G10 with 22 buttons and the G20 with 38 buttons, however corporations can customise these designs to offer fast entry to streaming platforms apart from well-liked choices like Netflix and YouTube.
