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 over [...]
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 [...]
I like the Wii just as much as the next guy — but it starts to wear after a while. Jumping around and swinging that remote is fun for some games, but in the end I’m pretty sure its a passing novelty. The people at Canesta seem to agree with the fun part, but also [...]
In the future, everything will be remote controlled. From remote control license plates to remote control cars, remote controlled beetles to remote controlled spiders, it would seem that dystopians everywhere are correct: total control is near!
Now, if William Sonoma’s big reveal of its remote control jack-o’-lantern candles made you giddy, you might want to brace [...]
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 [...]
It seems like my childhood gets lamer every day that passes, and it wasn’t even that long ago. I remember playing Duck Hunt and being completely awed and mystified by the magic toy for shooting ducks on TV. Now I read about crazy new toys that talk to your kids and read them stories, I [...]
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 [...]