Starting to think about your Christmas shopping and don’t know what to get Dad? Well, if he’s already got the iPhone remote Viper car starter, how about a remote-controlled Lucky License Plate? What’s that, you say? You’ve never heard of the lucky license plate? They are all the rage in Southern China. Operated by remote [...]
You’ve heard the urban legend: in slumber we swallow, on average, 7 spiders a year. Now here’s a spider that you’d swallow intentionally. A cracker jack team of scientists in Italy have come up with a spider-like pill intended to film your insides to detect diseases and other potential health hazards. Personally, I would have [...]
It is probably a safe bet to assume anyone with a car and an iPhone has said, “man, I wish this thing could start my car.” Maybe you’ve been walking to your car on a frigid night or a scorching day, but you’ve wondered about it, haven’t you? Maybe you remember this early post from [...]
GlideTV has seen the future and it comes in the shape of an ashtray made out of a halved Magic 8 Ball. Designed for home theatre PCs, Windows PCs, Apple Macs, AppleTV, Sony PlayStation 3, and Boxee (did we leave anyone out?), the GlideTV Navigator aims to make the merge between Internet and living room [...]
You can feel it in the air: the leaves are falling, the nights are cooler, you have a year’s supply of candy ready to go and wouldn’t you know it – you drink so much Cider Jack you almost burn your house down every night! Have no fear, trick or treaters, Williams Sonoma has got [...]
Ever stop to think about how much technology has infiltrated our lives? We use the Internet constantly — Twitter updates from friends, work from anywhere, fantasy sports scores every minute. All this can happen at once, on a simple cell phone. Even so, it seems that classrooms have lagged behind. What about computers and projectors [...]
If you dig a little on the Internet, it’s not too difficult to find prototype devices or interfaces that use your brain as a controller. There are videos left and right from companies and researchers trying to perfect and to capitalize on this novel method of control. The issue is that few companies have actually [...]
Of course “there’s an app for that,” but now it’s becoming increasingly common that there’s “a remote for that.” And by that, I mean everything. Take this week alone: first we reported about the remote controlled power strip, then there was the remote control toilet, followed by the remote controlled wizard adventure. And so we [...]
Have you ever wished you could have been a fly on the wall for a particular moment — for an entertaining squabble, an important moment in history, or simply just to spy on people for the fun of it? Well the Military does, and a group of researchers at University of California Berkeley are hard [...]
According to a Crestron press release, their Mobile Pro app has been available for the iPhone since September 22. It’s about time — Crestron has been promising this app since the 2008 CEDIA Expo just over a year ago. As of today, it doesn’t seem that anyone has downloaded or reviewed the app on iTunes [...]