Creative Engineering Solutions Created by Ordinary People

We always found it more than a little intimidating that television remote controls feature an entire slew of buttons that do more than just change the channel. Many buttons are designed to work with other devices you could buy and hook up to your TV set, so they are useless for most people.

This person had a very clever hack to cut down on confusion. When all you use are streaming channels, you don’t even need the channel buttons, only the power button. So they blocked out all unnecessary buttons with tape, making the remote entirely foolproof. Be right back, We’re going to go tape up our remote now!