![]() LG AN-MR21GA Magic Remote (Image credit: LG) ![]() While some remotes are certainly slimmer – like the sleek, secondary remote that comes with the best Samsung TVs – the new Magic Remote is clearly engineered to fit in the hand more comfortably than most. There’s still a pleasing dip on the remote’s underside for resting a finger, retaining the ergonomic tradition of the Magic Remote while messing with the clicker’s shape as little as possible. (You won’t find them sporting buttons for 3D functionality these days either.)īut it’s the 2021 iteration, the AN-MR21GA, that has fully embraced the norm, doing away with the slight bulge around the remote’s waist to achieve a straight-line shape on both sides, and course-correcting from the previous ‘bottom-heavy’ model. More recent models have cleaved a lot closer more traditional ‘clicking stick’ design of most TV remotes, with 2020’s AN-MR20GA sporting a rectangular shape and even a numerical keypad – a boon for anyone still watching TV channels over broadcast or satellite, if not those that have made the move over to Netflix and other OTT services permanently. The AN-MR500G model after that was condensed into more of an oval shape, like the floating obelisks from Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival, pulling the center of gravity towards the remote’s midpoint but with essentially the same layout – as LG oscillated into a convex shape instead. LG went on to embrace a slightly more space-age design with its 2013 iteration, the AN-MR400, with large (and not especially space-saving) buttons emanating from a central browser wheel, and hard, plastic buttons. In its initial iterations – like the 2011 AN-MR200 – it took after a Matrix coat or vampire cloak in its silhouette, with a tall shape and concave sides. What’s so fascinating about the Magic Remote is how its shape has changed and evolved over the years.
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