The Battery-less Remote

According to a reliable source streaming on the interweb, a new channel-changing device has been created. What is so special about this remote? It uses no batteries! Wow! The product is designed to use an electromagnetic induction coil and rotating gears to generate a current while the signal is transmitted using infrared light. Sounds pretty inventive, huh? I don't think so. Any idiot who gets ticked because he has a pair of dead batteries in his remote and is too lazy to get up and change the channel himself could have patented this pathetic thing! Electromagnetic technology? Come on! What is this, the 1820s? Now don't get me wrong, this remote has its upsides- for example, it uses no batteries and that means less batteries ending up in the landfills and polluting god's green earth. But this "magic" remote will also cause a decline in battery sales, disrupting our nation's fragile economy. Now you tell me, America, what's more important: A bunch of dirt and trees in a park or the kind of green that speaks to us all? As you've now probably realized, I am speaking sarcastically and have nothing but good things to say about this product and its inventor/s. Keep up the good work, guys!