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 Northeastern University [...]

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.

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 buttons [...]

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…

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 [...]

Everyone company wants to be “green” now and doing their part, or at least claim they are green, because it is so popular right now.  I haven’t seen much actual progress yet unfortunately (especially from the electronics industry), but then I ran across this interesting prototype from NEC.  They have created a remote control that [...]

It seems that literally every time I start browsing the ’net I find something else controlled by an iPhone. Here’s a sampling: iPhone controlled R/C Car An actual Oldsmobile Dance lights A minivan (2007) R2D2 Dog feeders Military Drones A helicopter What next? How about a bi-pedal walking robot named Walky.  The robot and controller [...]