One minor bane of modern life is the plethora of remote controls needed: one for the tele', one for the DVD, another for the VCR, yet another for the Mac , not to mention mobiles that need answering etc.. By the time I've found the remote(s) wanted, it would often have been quicker to walk over to the kit and poke it (very subtle geeky pun intended) directly.
Voice control probably isn't the answer, if only because it will always be possible to lose your voice or play stuff too loud.
Thought control is a more promising option. Some sort of cap to read brain emanations and transmit them as codes over Bluetooth might work. Better still, embed the 'cap' directly in the brain. Not a viable option for adults, perhaps, but for newborns, whose skull bones are soft and unfused, it would be a relatively minor operation. Babies thus equipped would learn their remoting in exactly the same way as talking and walking: by experiment. At first, the codes they emit could be used to flash lights or bang drums. Those same codes would later be used to control their whole environment, just by "willing" things to happen.
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