Those worked by sound. No power was needed or generated by the remote.

From the article…

By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency.

I THINK I even remember, way back, random channel changes from tapping on a drinking glass or something similar… Cool tech for the time

Subscriptions SUCK

Nice idea

Tell me about “secret menus”

I stopped using it because of that for a while. I have not found another launcher that has the swipe up and down on home screen icons to open other apps, put 9 icons in the dock and a few other things I can’t remember right now…

I blocked all Internet access to nova to circumvent analytics. Not sure if it’s working but until I find a different launcher…

deleted by creator