Remote controls help us manage various electronics around our homes, from gaming controllers to controls for TVs, ceiling fans, and other household gadgets. However, they're often overlooked when it ...

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Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Remote controls for TVs, cable boxes, and media players get handled all the time, often with fingers and mitts that aren't ...

Food, fingerprints, dog drool and dust — these are just a handful of the sticky, sometimes-slimy substances that might be coating your clicker. Take it from someone who’s spent the last decade of ...

ODESSA, Fla. — Mike Monsky was driving along one day with his son, who was eating a peanut-butter sandwich. When some of the filling spilled on a stray television remote control, he got a big idea. He ...

Have you ever gone to use a mouse, camera or remote control that's been sitting around for a while, only to find the batteries and their compartment covered in a white-ish crusty residue? That crust ...

IT TURNS out that the remote control is just one of the many essential things we’ve often forgot to clean and it’s letting germs multiply right under your nose. It turns out that the remote is just ...