Setting up a universal remote can be a big hassle. First you have to find the button combination to enter setup mode, and then you have to find the right code to enter — usually printed in small type in a user guide. Somtimes there is an auto-program feature, but these can be hit or [...]
GlideTV has seen the future and it comes in the shape of an ashtray made out of a halved Magic 8 Ball. Designed for home theatre PCs, Windows PCs, Apple Macs, AppleTV, Sony PlayStation 3, and Boxee (did we leave anyone out?), the GlideTV Navigator aims to make the merge between Internet and living room [...]
You can feel it in the air: the leaves are falling, the nights are cooler, you have a year’s supply of candy ready to go and wouldn’t you know it – you drink so much Cider Jack you almost burn your house down every night! Have no fear, trick or treaters, Williams Sonoma has got [...]
Hot off the presses: CasaTunes announces a new iPhone app companion to its family of whole-house audio equipment. The CasaTunes PC-based system is designed for 6- or 12-room audio, although according to their latest press release, it can now control up to 48 rooms — now that’s a big house! You can probably guess that [...]
Of course “there’s an app for that,” but now it’s becoming increasingly common that there’s “a remote for that.” And by that, I mean everything. Take this week alone: first we reported about the remote controlled power strip, then there was the remote control toilet, followed by the remote controlled wizard adventure. And so we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]