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Spare battery compartment for remote

 Another battery compartment to store new batteries
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There should be an extra compartment in remote controls which stores new batteries so that they can be replaced quickly. The extra compartment can then be refilled with recharged batteries for the next time. The flat batteries can be recharged by a USB on the device the remote's for.
—eleventeenthly, Feb 19 2009

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       Most remote batteries last their shelf life. So the spares would be flat (or nearly so) when the time came to swap them out.
—neelandan, Feb 19 2009
   

       [neelandan] - these are apparently rechargeable batteries. [11thly] - why not store the new batteries within the device to be controlled (which is larger than the remote and has power available to keep them charged)?
—vincevincevince, Feb 19 2009
   

       Or store it on a board - for cups.
—Ian Tindale, Feb 20 2009
   

       Just make sure you use those new fangled "low self discharge" rechargeables. Those last a whole year without a recharge, otherwise this idea is as useful as a spare hole for a mint.
—bigsleep, Feb 20 2009
   

       I actually don't agree with him. I think it'd be better to have a remote which slots in like a wiimote recharger, but that's part of my universal inbuilt battery agenda which i never quite get round to mentioning on here.
I also think remotes are to some extent the spawn of Satan.
—nineteenthly, Feb 20 2009
   

       //as useful as a spare hole in a mint// [marked-for-tagline]
—spidermother, Feb 20 2009
   


 

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