Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Philips "Multi-Life" batteries - and a remote

Remote control fever is KICKING OFF right now, with this - our second email about remote controls in nearly a whole week. Never before has the public imagination been captured with such vigour.

Philips answerphone and in-house batteries

"Hey there, I have just purchased a new Philips answerphone to kit my flat out in Amsterdam (working over here for TomTom) with only the very best of modern technology (do you know people can actually leave you messages when you are not there?). Anyway, that is besides the point."

Philips answerphone and in-house batteries

"Upon opening the box I found the attached batteries (well I attached some pics of the batteries, and not the actual batteries, apologies for any upset this may have caused). Yes, yes, I know Philips batteries are not very rare, but "Multi-Life"! They can die and then be reborn, again, from scratch. How many times it doesn't say... maybe nine?"

Philips answerphone and in-house batteries

"Apologies for the poor pic quality, they were taken with my new 8GB Nokia N95 (obviously this was free from my employers, and I did not pay for it... I would NEVER pay for a Nokia, I would like that printed on your site, thanks)."

Philips answerphone and in-house batteries

"Then I remembered something that was in the flat when I originally moved in. Just look at that remote, it's a retro remote-lover's dream. Great shaping, perfect curves, and the fade on those buttons is almost perfection. If there were a Page 3 for remotes, then this would be Keeley Hazell... please don't tell the missus I know who she is - Steven."

Philips answerphone and in-house batteries

Are you sure you want to go giving away so much detail about yourself on the internet, Steven? We could easily track you down in about five minutes using that lot.

Philips answerphone and in-house batteries

Definitely some sort of face, too. Nothing beats the feeling of having your boxes so thoroughly ticked first thing on a Tuesday morning.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Miquita Oliver's ripped tights said...

The low-class users wore out BBC1, BBC2, and ITV, but hardly ever watched Channel 4.

Damaging news for C4 there.

11:38 AM  
Anonymous hamildan said...

we have loads of these old phillips tvs at work.

someone cut out all the numbers off one with a razor blade when bored on a nightshift.

its got a nice heft, but the buttons are a bit spaced together.

12:43 PM  
Blogger grambles said...

It also looks as if they had their video on channel 7 and not the international standard of channel 8.

6:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i used to have one of these.

the back fell off after 3 days. great duct-tape fix though. still proud of it 10 years later.

12:07 AM  
Blogger mark said...

Can't believe you missed the face on the back of this.

Turn it over, open the battery cover a little and you get a face that looks rather like Beaker from The Muppets or Plug from the Bash Street Kids.

We still have this telly.

Cheers,

Mark

12:51 PM  
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