Since the dawn of man we have been searching for a better way to go to the bathroom. Well maybe that’s not entirely true, but there have been some technological breakthroughs on how we handle that business. First there was paper, then there were toilets, and eventually automatic flushing. All of these pale in comparison [...]
Everyone knows how awful it is searching through their Universal Remote’s instruction guide and trying to find the right code for your TV — trying each of the possible codes for your TV until one works, and then repeating it all over again for the DVD player. Well the QuickSet from Universal Electronics (UEI) may [...]
With all these “green” products being released now you would think the planet’s climate would be all set. We’ve got everything from eco-friendly bikinis, big “green” bombs, and magically “clean” coal. Now One for All has joined the green product blitz with their Energy Saver Remote — a salvo against the “stand by power consumption” [...]
Does reality television make you sick? Me too… but not as much as the TV remote in the hospital bed can, apparently.
Microbiology Professor Chuck Gerba — “The Germ Doctor” says that the TV remote harbors more bacteria than “the toilet bowl handle, bathroom door and call buttons, among others. Even more disturbing is the detection [...]
Have you ever wished you could have been a fly on the wall for a particular moment — for an entertaining squabble, an important moment in history, or simply just to spy on people for the fun of it? Well the Military does, and a group of researchers at University of California Berkeley are [...]
Another day, another iPhone app. Dubai-based Pulse Technologies wants you to control your home and hotel via iPhone… by the end of next year.
Pulse Technologies aims to conserve energy and improve security by enabling people to control their homes by adjusting the thermostat and monitoring their homes remotely to achieve their vision of “living buildings,” [...]
This morning Curtis Silver posted an interesting article in Wired’s GeekDad blog in which he asks the question, “Who controls the remote in your house?” Curtis makes some interesting arguments for restricting control to certain people, for example:
My children and many like them are forbidden from touching the many remotes that control the many devices [...]
According to a Crestron press release, their Mobile Pro app has been available for the iPhone since September 22. It’s about time — Crestron has been promising this app since the 2008 CEDIA Expo just over a year ago. As of today, it doesn’t seem that anyone has downloaded or reviewed the app on iTunes [...]
“Having the police officers there won’t work, I told you… I’m going to kill you.”
Imagine receiving a call like that, as the television flickers itself back and forth between random channels while the remote control sits idle on the coffee table. For the Bethea family, this isn’t a late-night horror movie, it’s a daily [...]
Do any of you remember hitting the road with the iTrip from Griffin Technology, the FM transmitter that let you use that new fangled (now Classic) iPod with your car radio? Well years later is seems — and with the help of iPhone OS 3.0 – Griffin has finally brought us a new iTrip for [...]