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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hardcore (-ish) band The Dillinger Escape Plan recently announced that it will include a television quashing universal remote in limited edition box sets…
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve seen a few cars being driven by the iPhone, that’s cool and all, but the guys from Mythbusters have basically been doing that for years. Starting your car with the iPhone makes sense, but driving hands free? The people from Engineer Awesome, which is a part of Waterloo Labs at National Instruments, make it [...]
Bowling can be pretty frustrating — unless you have those awesome bumpers we used at my 5th birthday party. I’ve always wanted to bowl a perfect game like Mort Goldman, but to be honest I think the LHC has a better chance of actually getting started first. Until now. With the RC900, a remote control [...]
Bet you didn’t even think there were ten songs about remote controls. Well, rest assured, we’ve searched high and low to bring you the ten best (only?) songs exclusively about man’s other best friend: the remote control. Neil Patrick Harris “Put Down the Remote” The Reddings “Remote Control” Melanie Gerren “Remote Control” Eric Avery “All [...]