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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
The CEDIA Expo starts tomorrow, so we expect this to be a big week for home automation and remote control news. To get things started, Global Caché has announced its new iTach line. Similar to their existing GC-100 products in basic functionality (connecting an infrared or serial device to your LAN), the iTach has added [...]
In a CEDIA preview article on CEPro.com, Universal Remote Control (URC) unveiled some details on their new KP-4000 in-wall touchscreen control panel. This two-way RS-232 and IP communication control panel is a new direction for URC, and another step further into the home automation arena, long dominated by Crestron and Control4. High-end home automation is [...]
This morning, Jeff Bakalar over at Crave said of the new Harmony 700 remote, “It looks a lot like the Harmony One or the new Harmony 900 and the freshly announced Logitech Harmony 700 Remote only appears to be missing the touch screen found on its bigger brothers.” Keeping it in the family appears to be [...]