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The remote control invented to silence commercials

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The very first wireless control device for household screens was not heavily designed to easily flip through content channels. The frustrated inventor created the flashlight-like gadget entirely because he utterly despised loud promotional broadcasts and desperately wanted an instant way to silence marketers.

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