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 [...]

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 [...]

RedEye mini is a small adapter that plugs into the headphone jack of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad—transforming it into a completely portable universal remote. RedEye mini owners will be able to use their iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices to quickly operate anything anything controlled by infrared signals, anywhere they go: TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, stereos, gaming consoles, etc.

I’m sure you’ve heard about Logitech’s Touch Mouse by now; the internet’s been buzzing with the news since Monday (and the story was floating around in cyberspace for a bit before it took off).
According to Logitech Global Product Marketing Manager Andy Hengel, the Touch Mouse app uses Wi-Fi to turn your iPhone or iPod touch [...]

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 [...]

Hot off the presses: CasaTunes announces a new iPhone app companion to its family of whole-house audio equipment. The CasaTunes PC-based system is designed for 6- or 12-room audio, although according to their latest press release, it can now control up to 48 rooms — now that’s a big house! You can probably guess that [...]

Many PlayStation 3 fans enjoy using their console as a Blu-ray player but have been long searching for an inexpensive, simplified way to control it. According to Matthew Moskovciak of CNET Reviews, one of the main drawbacks in the PS3 is its lack of an IR receptor, which means that those who are used to [...]