Remember the days of free-to-air TV, listening to free radio programming and only communicating via landline? Yeah, me neither. Over the last 20 years, families have been witnessing dramatic increases in their monthly communications budget. Take the Martin family for example: $900 a month (US $780) now covers their four mobile phones, Wi-Fi enabled laptop [...]
You’re busy, I’m busy – we’re all busy people. We’ve got places to be and we want to take the route on our terms. Some might argue life isn’t worth living if it doesn’t allow for a personalized soundtrack, yet some still view public headphone use a modern faux pas. When was the last time [...]
It’s 3:51 PM: do you know where your remote is? According to a new poll, chances are nay. Sky, UK’s leading entertainment and communications company has conducted a poll of 4,000 viewers on their TV remote control habits. Among the findings… “The average viewer loses it an average of 3.2 times a week and spends [...]
You might have wondered what the hotel rooms of the future are going to look like. Well, maybe you haven’t, but after checking out the Future Hotel Showcase, I was quite interested — and a little confused as to why the future is so monochrome. CNNMoney.com has a interesting video on what a joint research [...]
We called out Logitech’s fancy footwork in minimally rejiggering their remotes by rearranging models and price points and it would appear that Universal Electronics (not to be confused with Universal Remote) joins the market dance in this ongoing floodgate of universal remotes. Last week, UEI released details about their new C2 and C3 series custom Nevo remotes [...]
Imagine being 8 again, and waking up to your favorite toy singing you a song and asking to play games. Awesome, huh? Then suddenly it says you have a message from your dad and plays it for you. This is what it might be like for your kids someday thanks to ToyBots WooZees and their [...]
Calling all Muggles. Have you ever wished you could just turn on your TV while sitting down with some magical device? Well I guess that’s already been done, but I bet you wished you could look like Harry Potter while doing it – and now you can. Introducing the Kymera Magic Wand, a gesture controlled [...]
Correction: Remotescape is a product of Remotescape Inc. and not a Kaleidescape System product. Remotescape was developed by Remotescape Inc. independently of Kaleidescape Systems which is why the App is not free. It’s not often that I’m completely envious or jealous over not having a certain system or gadget, but I have to say with [...]
The CEDIA Expo starts tomorrow, so we expect this to be a big week for home automation and remote control news. To get things started, Global Caché has announced its new iTach line. Similar to their existing GC-100 products in basic functionality (connecting an infrared or serial device to your LAN), the iTach has added [...]
Samsung played the ultimate matchmaker when they created the LED TV couple, a 55-inch TV and 7-inch touch tablet remote combo introduced at IFA. LED TV couple isn’t exactly the most exciting name for this home cinema combo, nor is it the most descriptive. Aside from the beautiful looking LED-backlit LCD TV — I guess [...]