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unusual facts about Remote control


National Robotics Challenge

SUMO Robot: in which two robots (RC or autonomous) try to push each other out of the playing circle.


C/2010 X1

Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

Egain forecasting

As far as practical use of forecasting method is concerned, usually remote control forecasting receivers are used to send and receive data by means of GPRS or GSM network.

Full Service Network

This, according to Pizza Hut’s spokesperson, Chris Romoser, represented an advantage for everyone involved: users had to press fewer buttons on their remote control than they would have to dialing for delivery, and less restaurant-employee time will be required for the completion of the ordering process.

Hammond Castle

The castle, which was constructed between 1926 and 1929, was the home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr. He was an inventor who was a pioneer in the study of remote control and held over four hundred patents.

The Reddings

Their most well-known songs include "Remote Control" (1980) / "Doin' it" / "Funkin On The One" / "Class (Is What You Got)" (1981) / "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" (1982) / "Hand Dance" (1983) and "The Awakening" (1980), a bass-drums-duet which is often performed live by Les Claypool (Primus) and on his album Highball with the Devil.


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1988 in the Irish Republican Army

6 March - Three unidentified IRA members, suspected of having a remote control explosive dentonator in their possession, are shot and killed by a team of British SAS agents in Gibraltar.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Under Sulzberger the Times began to publish editions in Paris and Los Angeles with remote-control typesetting machines.

Circle of Life

In DisneyToon's 2004 direct-to-video film The Lion King 1½, Timon and Pumbaa are watching this musical number in a dark theater when Timon suddenly uses a remote control to fast forward to where they appear in the film.

Cross-zone scripting

This type of vulnerability has been exploited to silently install various malware (such as spyware, remote control software, worms and such) onto computers browsing a malicious web page.

Dick Dean

Dean continued to build cars with Dean Jeffries until his retirement, including the character cars in Death Race 2000 1975, the remote-control Ford Explorers for Jurassic Park, the ECTO-1 Cadillac Ambulance for Ghostbusters, prop vehicles for the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, and the Flintstones movie.

EagleEyes

EagleEyes is a mobile surveillance application developed by AVTECH corporation (Chinese: 陞泰科技股份有限公司;Pinyin: Shēng Tài Kē Jì Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) in Taiwan, first released in 2009.It is able to realize full-functioned remote control with smart phones and tablets.

Graham Finn

Bass Odyssey provided the theme song ("Twilight") for the RTÉ television programme No Disco, and also contributed a track ("Remote Control Soul") to the soundtrack of the film Deep Blue Sea.

Ground Launched Cruise Missile

Kettering Bug, a pre-WWII manned aircraft tested with remote control in the United States

Home theater

Media center, refers either to a dedicated computer appliance (like a Home theater PC) or to a specialized personal computer software, both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media (music, movies, photos etc.), and it usually has a 10-foot user interface design to be used in living-room TV with a remote control.

Home theater in a box, HTIB is an modestly-priced integrated home theater package which "bundles" together a combination DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc player and multi-channel amplifier (which includes a surround sound decoder, a radio tuner, and other features), speaker wires, connection cables, a remote control, a set of five or more surround sound speakers (or more rarely, just left and right speakers) and a low-frequency subwoofer

Louisiana Highway 560

In 2001, it was truncated north of the railroad tracks to allow for remote control operation of locomotives servicing the Kinder Morgan plant.

Mitch Altman

In 2004 Altman released a one-button universal remote control called TV-B-Gone, to be used for turning off TVs in public places.

Mr. Bean in Room 426

When Mr. Bean plays with the remote control, a few lines from the film Algiers by actor Charles Boyer can be heard.

Najica Blitz Tactics

Najica is also an expert helicopter pilot, and she has a custom-modified Mil Mi-35 Hind assault helicopter with remote control and advanced avionics.

Nancy Balbirer

After NYU, Balbirer landed a featured role on MTV's first-ever nonmusical program, Remote Control, playing what she referred to as "a rotating succession of floozies", alongside comics like Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, Ken Ober and Colin Quinn.

Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja

After a fight in which Rachel Summers ferociously unleashed the full power of the Phoenix Force on Alfie in his Galactus form and brought him to his knees, the team was sent back to their native reality, Earth-616, when Nightcrawler pushed "Cancel" on the remote control of Alfie's television, which nullified everything that had occurred.

Remote Control Star

Remote Control Star is a hidden camera game show on CBBC presented by JK and Joel.

Remote control vehicle

Recently, Sony Ericsson released a remote control car that could be controlled by any Bluetooth cell phone.

Rhine–Main–Danube Canal

The 16 locks are managed from four remote control centers (Neuses since 2007, Kriegenbrunn, Hilpoltstein, and Dietfurt from the beginning of 2007).

Server Interface Pod

Many of Dell's KVM switches are IP enabled, allowing users to remote control servers with a Linux or Microsoft Windows client.

Steve Jablonsky

He was mentored by current Remote Control members Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith and former members Harry Gregson-Williams and Klaus Badelt.

Super Robot

The idea of a robot controlled by a young hero was first used in 1956 with Iron Man 28 or Tetsujin 28-go (dubbed and released in the US as Gigantor), by manga artist Mitsuteru Yokoyama, which featured a giant robot piloted by remote-control by a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who used it to fight against evil.

Thomson DTI 6300-16

Included in the packaging is a Top Up TV remote control and SCART lead, a signal improvement kit, an RF lead and a power cable.