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 [...]
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.
Supposedly an acoustic trigger could have remotely sealed the under sea oil well that is currently spilling 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico. Many news outlets are reporting that if British Petroleum had invested in this particular remote control technology, workers escaping from the burning BP rig on April 20 [...]
Happy Halloween to all of you from all of us on the MoreControl/RedEye team. In case you missed them, here are some Halloween-themed posts from the last few weeks: Remote Controlled Techno-Spider Pill Invades Your Insides $20 Pumpkin Gadget Destined To Become Sidewalk Splatter E-Hijacked: Electronic Death Threats Haunt Family ToyBots WooZee: Internet- and iPhone-Enabled [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Everyone needs a hug sometimes, right? C’mon, even you macho types can admit it. So when times get tough and you need that hug to get you going again, what if your loved ones are away or a random stranger won’t give you that hug? Friend, if this is you, then Singapore’s Mixed Reality Lab [...]
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 [...]