Universal remote control pillow

If your remote control vanished as often as mine, you wouldn't dismiss this admittedly ridiculous Universal Pillow Remote out of hand. (Thanks, Charles Pescovitz!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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SamSam

Brilliant — every time you shift your weight the channel changes! Just what the ADD generation wants.
- MrWednesday7
  
  Only if you sit on the thing, fool!
  - Warren_Terra
    
    You mean, only if you use it as a cushion?
Brainspore

I made the mistake of buying one of their mattresses, and now the garage door keeps opening and closing every time my wife and I get some private time.
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

Last night I dreamed I ate my remote and when I woke up my pillow was gone.
Gilbert Wham

And people look at me like I’m mad, ‘cos the remotes are fastened to the table on strings…
- http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose
  
  I threaten my sweetie with hanging his remote from the ceiling with small diameter bungee cord.
- Warren_Terra
  
  Compromise: attach the remotes to cushions.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Can’t you just attach it to a board like the restroom key at a gas station?
- Jerril
  
  We duct-taped all the remotes together onto a plywood tray. Made one gigantic remote control pad thing out of them.
  
  Ultimate universal remote.
http://www.facebook.com/dan.morrison.nz Dan Morrison

My cat managed to change channel for me easily enough in the first place. This would take all the challenge out of it for him.
http://twitter.com/antnisP Antonis Pappas

Wow, it’s also drop proof. It almost makes me wish I had a TV set to use it with.