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?

VideoWave is Bose’s answer to home theater in a box. Comprised of a 46” LCD TV with built-in 5.1 channel audio (What?!), a processor that can be neatly tucked into a cabinet, and a unique remote control, the VideoWave system appears to be a feat of engineering on a number of fronts.

While it’s fascinating that Bose managed to make a flat screen with built in speakers feel like surround sound (a point *some* audiophiles may disagree with), we think its FAR OUT remote control deserves a bit more attention.

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 carried public without attracting attention. When not [...]

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.

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 [...]

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?? There’s an [...]

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…