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Smartphone Camera Can Test Remote Control Batteries

Smartphones, in most cases, can detect infrared light emitted by remote controls. (AFP)
Smartphones, in most cases, can detect infrared light emitted by remote controls. (AFP)
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Smartphone Camera Can Test Remote Control Batteries

Smartphones, in most cases, can detect infrared light emitted by remote controls. (AFP)
Smartphones, in most cases, can detect infrared light emitted by remote controls. (AFP)

Is your remote broken? Or is it just that the batteries have run out? Your smartphone camera can help you answer these pressing questions.

Smartphones, in most cases, can detect infrared light emitted by remote controls. The user should just open the camera app and point the sensor towards the infrared diode on the remote control.

According to the German News Agency (dpa), when you press a button on the remote, infrared light will appear on the smartphone screen in the form of a quivering white or purple dot.

If you do not see a flickering dot, or it is very, very dim, then you probably need to change the remote's batteries.

If the dot is strong, then something else is wrong. However, this does not work with all smartphones.

If nothing happens on the screen, try switching from the main camera to the front-facing camera.

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Whale Dies after Collision with Small Boat off New Jersey Shore

A humpback whale breaches the surface off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa February 13, 2007. REUTERS/Issei Kato
A humpback whale breaches the surface off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa February 13, 2007. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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Whale Dies after Collision with Small Boat off New Jersey Shore

A humpback whale breaches the surface off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa February 13, 2007. REUTERS/Issei Kato
A humpback whale breaches the surface off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa February 13, 2007. REUTERS/Issei Kato

A minke whale died off the New Jersey shore after a collision that nearly tipped over a small boat and threw a person overboard.

Social media video of the collision in Barnegat Bay on Saturday afternoon shows the motor boat rocking after the impact and the 20-foot (6-meter) whale splashing near the craft before swimming away. The person thrown overboard manages to tread water next to the boat, The AP news reported.

The whale was found dead after it came to rest on a sandbar in shallow water. Marine authorities were not able to get close to the whale due to tidal conditions, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, a not-for-profit rescue, rehabilitation and release organization.

“At this point, we really don’t have much to go on,” Jay Pagel, stranding coordinator at the center, said Sunday. “The side of the animal that we were able to observe had no obvious marks on it that we could see. But again, our visibility was very limited.”

Pagel said there were reports the whale had injuries prior to the collision captured on video. He noted there was a second video posted online that appears to show the whale making contact with a pontoon boat after the initial collision.

The animal will be towed to a state park on Monday morning for a necropsy to determine the cause of death.