My picture frame came with a remote. I can not tell you how many times I had thought "I wish I had a picture frame with a remote." Now I have one.
My CD player has a remote. It needs one because Sony figured out that it is cheaper to reprogram a TV remote to work with the CD player than it is to put buttons on the CD player. They also figured that no one would ever use a CD player that wasn't attached to a TV set so they built on-screen menus into the remote. So if you don't have a TV because you are like, you know, literate then you have to memorize the sequence of menu choices that would appear on the screen you don't have in order to operate the remote. None of this would matter to someone, me for example, who just likes to play CDs all the way through except that Sony also thought that it would be a good idea to have the CD player's default behavior to be that it auto replays the CD when it reaches the end. Thanks Sony.
My Technics receiver also has a remote. While it is fun to watch the volume knob on the receiver rotate this way and that when using the remote, it is really quite useless. Turns out that in addition to being literate I also was gifted with legs.
My old Dell XPS system came with a Skype headset. The headset came with a remote. I still have no idea why.
I look forward to the day when urinals have remotes.
