… make a remote control that doesn’t spill its guts all over the floor when you drop it off the arm of the sofa.

You should have it in your hand at all times and deffo not be leaving it on the arm of the sofa where other people may get hold of it 😉

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none of my remotes do that… are you posh and have wooden floors or something?

My Sky+ remote doesn’t do this and my wife throws it at to me all the time.

What other things would you expect to have been achieved with all this modern technology?

Hover boards

dont change the subject molly! answer the god damn question. ARE YOU A POSHER WITH WOODEN FLOORS?!

You want an Apple remote:

Do you not have a woman in the house?
I don’t even know what our remote looks like any more.

Wooden floors – yes. Posh – you decide.

My remote has the duck tape repair
I have wooden floors and clumsy children
Phil, Molly and I must be posh for we lack the tattoos that signify the lower clases

You want an Apple remote:

Hold on – that appears to have far too many buttons for an Apple UI device.

If the remote didn’t spill it’s guts then the energy would just go straight into it* and knacker the gubbins inside, spilling it’s guts is a way of expending that energy and still leaving you with a remote that works (once you put it back together again!).

Unless they make a silicone/rubber one which would bounce around the room and invariably end up knocking a lamp over/picture off the wall or similar!

too damn right junky! 😀 we dont even have carpet, just old newpapers that we can throw out when somebody has an accident

Would rubber corners be too much to ask?