We’ve seen web-enabled TV – but with the release of the Android remote app, Google TV is taking a different approach, partnering with Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe and Dish Network to provide mass distribution of the Android-based TV platform. The search giant is betting big on Google TV’s ability to run Android apps and its unique integration of the web, search, voice and the best of TV.

Google TV is search-driven, which means that you can expect to do a fair amount of of work every time you turn on the TV. Locating and playing content using the Logitech Revue (or any future Google TV platform) requires cruising through an on-the-TV-screen interface, and typing search terms that could be related to whatever you want to watch.

So how does one control this system? With a complex cast of controllers from Logitech, of course. Let’s Revue, shall we?

Immediately after I finished writing about Verizon’s remote control and DVR Manager apps, Comcast started talking about their Xfinity Remote prototype for the iPad. Good timing. The app was demoed by CEO Brian Roberts at the Cable Show 2010 (see video below), and honestly, I was pretty impressed with what it had to offer. It [...]

Hello, fellow remote control and home automation enthusiasts.  I’m a new contributor here at MoreControl.com, and a self-confessed home automation and home theater addict.  I’ve spent the last several years automating and tweaking various aspects of my home.  Much of the work has been of a practical nature, introducing user-friendly automation to conserve energy, monitor [...]

Supposedly an acoustic trigger could have remotely sealed the under sea oil well that is currently spilling 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico. Many news outlets are reporting that if British Petroleum had invested in this particular remote control technology, workers escaping from the burning BP rig on April 20 [...]

Hardcore (-ish) band The Dillinger Escape Plan recently announced that it will include a television quashing universal remote in limited edition box sets…

I’m sure you’ve heard about Logitech’s Touch Mouse by now; the internet’s been buzzing with the news since Monday (and the story was floating around in cyberspace for a bit before it took off). According to Logitech Global Product Marketing Manager Andy Hengel, the Touch Mouse app uses Wi-Fi to turn your iPhone or iPod [...]

Polar Bears are typically pretty scary to encounter in real life, that is unless you have some protective glass between you and them of course.  Now what would happen if the glass was inside of the Polar Bear instead, and it was actually a 720p HDTV from Hannspree?  Well you would have yourself the CES [...]

Slingmedia showed off the beautiful new Sling Touch Control 100 this week at CES. The Touch Control 100 has a 4.3 inch touchscreen and a stunning design which was sleek enough to get it selected as a CES Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Award honoree. The Touch Control 100 lets you control SlingGuide enabled DVRs [...]

Call me old fashioned, but I still don’t get this whole gesture control movement that is being adopted for TV’s and other devices.  I get the use of it in video games — it’s more fun playing tennis in a video game when you get to at least swing something instead of just pressing a [...]