But I'm not cut out for making fanfic, I've never been to Orlando, and her two other books have nothing to do with wizards – though there is another wizarding-world movie coming out next year. Until we can watch that movie, we will have to stick with pretending we aren't Muggles somehow...
And that's where this comes into play.
ThinkGeek is a website designed for geeks. Whatever geeky thing you're obsessed with – Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Marvel, MLP, Portal, Minecraft, Harry Potter and more – they most likely have some sort of swag for it. This isn't officially part of their Harry Potter collection. It's filed under "Camera, Photo and Video" (no Oxford comma?) in Electronics and Gadgets. But it's pretty Harry Potter-y for a... TV remote control.
That's right – it's a stick, it has no buttons, how does it work? Well, you move it around, like the swish and flick Professor Flitwick taught you back in first year charms class. Change the channel with a flick, lower and raise the volume with a twist. It's an almost universal remote, so it doesn't matter what TV device you have for the most part.
There are only two things I am not sure about. First, what batteries does it use? And, they say it "learns from your existing remotes". How. The. Heck.
To be fair, I'm not a tech geek like a lot of people from ThinkGeek are. Still, I just don't have the foggiest as to how, as this picture shows, the remote wand learns from other remote controls.
It costs $79.99, so if you're willing to shell that out, get it here. You can also search for similar, cheaper, and probably less amazing things through Amazon.
Overall, seems confusing, but I guess I'm just not enough of a techie to understand. I guess my father really didn't rub off on me.
Thanks for reading, thingologists, and I'll see you tomorrow!
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