Um , so I was looking at how we're going to go about the working design , and what we actually need to do , and what the remote control needs to do. And it needs to um allow a person to have a portable desi device , so they can control the television from wherever they are. They don't need to actually manually touch the television set. So , it gives them much more flexibility , and allows them to be where they want to be. Um , from  Uh , on a functional side of things , we found out that wh from our previous meeting , we decided that there're certain points that will make our product unique. Um , one is the visibility in the dark , which was um Genevieve's idea. So we need to think about how we could bring this in um technically. And we could use illuminated buttons , which we are all familiar with when we're using a mobile phone , or um something fam familiar. A automatically , um lights up at first touch. Or we could use fluorescent materials which would just um take in the light during the day , and then as soon as they go off they would glow in the dark. Um , also we could use um an alarm. So if we lost the um remote control , perhaps there could be a button on the television set itself , which you could press , and then an alarm from the handset would sound where it was , hopefully in the room. Maybe behind a cushion or somewhere.
Um , so that would work. Um , oop. Go back there. Um , another thing I think we d missed out on on the last meeting was the fact that we should consider the environmental impact of our design. Um , from previous researches I've carried out on other projects , um we've learnt about smart materials where um um specific alloys of metals have a shape memory.
So they can be heated and um and cooled , and they change the shape of um the metal. So , for example , a screw that's holding something together could expand and it would force all the components apart. So um , the benefits of this for our product would be that when it came to the end of its product life , if it was heated , um everything would spring apart. So , all the um individual components could be easily separated , and then some could be reused , some could be recycled , and I think that would be very important for products now. Especially 'cause there's much uh responsibility for all the um companies who are coming up with like new designs. 'Cause all , we all know that our resources are being limited , and we have to be very environmentally conscious.
Right , um , one question. This , um , self-destructible uh metal , it allows for recycling materials ?