The paper remote

Discussing my diploma with Timo before christmas, we stumbled upon an idea for choosing tv content using magasines and books with RFID-buttons. The buttons are only active when pressed and are read from your tv, therefore they would be cheap and thin. In this way a tv magasine becomes a remote control, an edited remote control with reviews in it. Not infite virtual options, but definite physical options.

You could for instance buy "the Hitchcock Collection" as a book, make notes in it, lend it to friends and keep it in your shelves.

When increasingly amounts of video content is made available on the web, these paper remotes serves the same function as DVDs do today. You can also cut pages from magasines and keep for later. Or just save it in your tv for later.