Saturday, September 4th, 2010

There’s a reason why more people haven’t seen the next RedEye universal remote for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad before ThinkFlood makes an announcement: They’re in disguise.
This RedEye mini, which looks drastically different from the original RedEye, was concealed in a custom-molded enclosure, so it could be [...]

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Watch City Brewing Company. A nice place to enjoy good Waltham craft beers. And if you’re a ThinkFlood software engineer named Justin Nguyen, it’s also a nice place to make the honest mistake of losing the next product in ThinkFlood’s line of universal remotes for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad—RedEye mini.

Justin Nguyen—a [...]

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RedEye mini is a small adapter that plugs into the headphone jack of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad—transforming it into a completely portable universal remote. RedEye mini owners will be able to use their iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices to quickly operate anything anything controlled by infrared signals, anywhere they go: TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, stereos, gaming consoles, etc.

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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 looks [...]

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Recently, Verizon responded to the worldwide social networking obsession by integrating Facebook and Twitter widgets into their FiOS TV service. Now you can seamlessly watch your favorite TV show and browse through your Facebook friends or Twitter tweets all without getting off the couch. Nice.
But what if you can’t find the remote?? [...]

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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 [...]

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Are you sick of your cat scratching up your furniture, jumping on the table, or staring at you while you sleep? Now you can be in control, thanks to the Control-a-Cat Remote Control. Control-a-cat abandons traditional IR technology, and is “simply powered by wishful thinking” (no batteries requred!) “Simply point at your cat, press [...]

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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 would [...]

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

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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 touch [...]

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