You鈥檙e out for the evening and you鈥檝e forgotten to set the video
recorder鈥攂ut don鈥檛 despair, Lucent Technologies can help (EP 793 225). Its
modified phone answering machine has an infrared transmitter that mimics the
pulses from the video recorder鈥檚 remote control. The answering machine transmits
the pulses in response to tone signals down the line.
The owner calls the answering machine, which sends IR pulses across the room
to program the recorder.
