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September 18, 2009 10:00 AM

Get Your TV Remote Control Working, MacGyver-Style

By
Dave Johnson
(MoneyWatch)  How many times has this happened to you: You get to a hotel after a long plane flight and find that the remote control for your room's television isn't working. Well, it's easy to go all MacGyver on your remote by powering it with just one battery -- or even the wrong kind of battery, if that's all you can find. Easy, that is, after you watch this video:



This Metacafe video teaches you how to use a paperclip or a keying to close the circuit when you have just one battery, and how to force a remote to work with a AAA battery even if it's designed for AAs. [via Lifehacker]

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