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Simple Solutions

Ask just about any engineer and they'll tell you that often the simplest solutions are best. The more you over-engineer something the more likely one of those moving parts is to break, and a similar thing applies to interfaces. Who needs 60 different buttons on a remote when you only ever really use two? In this photo, someone decided to simplify things and tape over the majority of their remote's buttons.

The result was this elegant, yet still useful remote. They even wrote directions on it for anyone that might be tempted to go back to the old, overcomplicated layout. This would be especially useful for anyone out there with children as they tend to like to randomly press buttons.