A couple of days ago Total Telecom ran an article by Dow Jones’s Roger Cheng about how mobile phones are becoming TV remotes.
This kind of convergence is all fine and good — I think it’s great that we finally have mobile computing devices that connect to more than just the voice network — but these [...]

Version 1.1 of OnOne’s DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone and iPod touch is finally available at the App Store.
The what? CrunchGear’s Devin Coldewey explains, “…this is an app that lets you control and shoot your DSLR [digital camera] from afar, pretty much controlling every aspect of the shot and getting a live preview…”
Today’s release (which [...]

Wii fans — brace yourselves as your beloved Wiimote goes mainstream. Or maybe not…
Philips is set to unveil the uWand, a TV (and PC) remote looks a little (and works a lot) like your Wii Remote’s cousin.
According to Rapid TV News editorial director Chris Forrester, Philips will demonstrate its uWand remote control for both TV [...]

Behold the TV Remote; the device that works so you don’t have to. Hard to believe that “doing nothing” has come a long way, but since its first appearance in 1950, Zenith’s aptly named “Lazy Bones” was the first of its kind to capture the magic onscreen by the command of your thumb. As science-fiction [...]

Showers can help you relax. Remote controls can help you relax. Why not combine them for the ultimate in relaxation? Perhaps that is what product managers at Moen thought when they hatched the idea of adding remote control capability to their ioDIGITAL showers and baths.
It’s hard to argue with the premise here — I’d give [...]

The latest version of the i.TV iPhone app allows hardware manufacturers to offer iPhone remote control capabilities for their devices, as reported on Pocket–lint.
We like i.TV’s cool television guide and movie listings features, which have been available since the app’s debut. Now the new i.TV version offers a “remote control framework” that allows “third parties [...]

I have to admit, the CRISTAL remote is pretty amazing. A multinational joint development effort between  Michael Haller’s team at the Media Interaction Lab of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences and researchers at the University of Waterloo, the University of Tokyo, and Keio University, this futuristic remote control concept won the Emerging Technology [...]

If you’re a geek like we are, you may have seen the pilot for the original Star Trek series, “The Cage,” created and written by the immortal Gene Roddenberry back in 1966. Roddenberry had an extraordinary knack for predicting how technology would unfold in the future. “Communicators” and “Tricorders,” for example, uncannily recall today’s [...]

The Prime Sensor was honored as Best New Product Idea at CableLabs Summer Conference this week. Made by Tel Aviv startup Prime Sense, the Prime Sensor is a 3-D sensing system that lets you control your TV or set-top box with a flick of your hand – literally – in mid-air.
Instead of a remote, viewers [...]

Yesterday in ZDNet’s Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes revealed that despite owning a Harmony One universal remote, he still hangs onto seven other remote controls to handle functions that he can’t squeeze into the Harmony setup. Of course the Harmony One has an infrared learning feature, but even so, there’s not always an appropriate place [...]