To recharge the battery, just place the remote in its horizontal charging cradle. It’s not super sensitive, though, so sometimes you’ll need to give the remote a quick shake to bring it to life. The Harmony One includes a built-in motion sensor that’s supposed to wake the remote when you pick it up.

Although the individual keys are only slightly larger than those on an average remote, each has its own unique shape and is spaced far enough apart so that you can easily use the remote for basic operations without looking at it. The backlit hard keys are distinctly grouped together by function (transport, numeric keypad, etc.). At the business end is a bright 1.25-by-1.5-inch color touchscreen with enough resolution that you can easily recognize the tiny DVD logo on the DVD player icon.

The Harmony One is as narrow as most single-device remotes, but it’s thinner and surprisingly light. It looks great, is easy to program, and is sweetly simple to use. The Harmony One is another in its long list of affordable universal remote controls. I don’t know what they put in the water cooler at Logitech, but I want to start drinking it. Programmable power-on, inter-key, inter-device delays.Help function uses questions and answers to fix system problems.Price: $250 At A Glance: Exceptionally intuitive

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