Remote Control

Has anyone else heard a remote referred to as a beamer? I remember when I was young sometimes when the remote would go missing and people in my house would occaionally refer to it as a beamer. I never thought too much about it until friends came over and if we referred to a remote as a beamer they wouldn't know what the hell we were talking about. I've heard others refer to it a clicker, controller, remote, the TV changer, but I've never heard anyone outside my family call it a beamer.