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 were developed by a group of grad students [...]
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 Remote and No Control”
Jazzy [...]
Soon, Glen Beck can drive you crazy… all the way home. Chrysler has just announced it’s plans to integrate a live TV service that will surely turn us all into mindless, drooling media-hungry zombies make your daily commute a little less boring.
Starting in December, Chrysler will be offering its new Flo TV service for $625 [...]
Kochi, India has a pretty bad traffic problem it seems — bad enough for them to try a novel way to control the chaos. Police have recently begun installing remote controlled traffic lights in the most problematic areas. While every major city has its issues with traffic, I don’t think anyone has tried this before, [...]
Walking around today I realized just how much technology I have lining my pockets. There is my PDA, my iPod, RFID cards… I have at least few hundred dollars sitting in there. So I got to thinking: If I have this much technology outside of my pants, why isn’t there any on the inside?
Just kidding [...]
Unleash your inner Spielberg: SkyShutter has released the AeriCam, a remote controlled helicopter for your video camera. Backyard home videos just got a lot more interesting.
The AeriCam is a “lightweight 3-axis camera mount coupled with a customized Industry Radio Control Helicopter.” Founder and commercial photographer, Jason Lam brought his R/C enthusiast skills to bear in this product, [...]