It's great that your son wants to lift something besides the remote.
The only real downside to the remote besides the price is that most people will probably need a pro to install it.
Photovoltaic energy presents advantages like low cost for maintenance, installation in remote locations, besides not generating environment impacts during operation.
For a vast developing country like India, this provides an immense opportunity to provide even higher education to remote places besides extending the library services through networking.
A recent evacuation simulation (2009) for El Chichόn volcano (Marrero et al. 2013) stressed the need of flexible and volcano-specific evacuation plans, as mitigation action time strongly depends on local socio-economic conditions (e.g. for El Chichόn, the lack of self-transport, people living in remote areas), besides the behavior of the volcano itself.
A two-week-old military offensive against the kidnappers, who call themselves Abu Sayyaf, or Bearer of the Sword, appears to have accomplished little besides leveling several villages on the remote island of Jolo.
The environment offers besides traditional organized educational material also remote experiments and a preliminary tutoring system that guide the student in order to maximize knowledge transfer and self-learning techniques.
The remote allows users to control other devices besides their Fire TV, thanks to its support for both Bluetooth and multi-directional infrared.
And besides the economic incentives it is highly available and allows remote employees access and ability to work online.
Plus, computers tend to be used in many other rooms besides the living room; it's not clear that a remote control, no matter how good, is going to change that.
