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 [...]

“91% of families fight over the remote.” So says Logitech in a study carried out last November. Among the findings, “72% of people have fallen out or argued over a remote control, 12% have thrown one and 7% have actually physically fought over one.” What’s got everyone so riled up about having total control over [...]

It seems like my childhood gets lamer every day that passes, and it wasn’t even that long ago.  I remember playing Duck Hunt and being completely awed and mystified by the magic toy for shooting ducks on TV.  Now I read about crazy new toys that talk to your kids and read them stories, I [...]

Since the dawn of man we have been searching for a better way to go to the bathroom.  Well maybe that’s not entirely true, but there have been some technological breakthroughs on how we handle that business.  First there was paper, then there were toilets, and eventually automatic flushing.  All of these pale in comparison [...]

Does reality television make you sick? Me too… but not as much as the TV remote in the hospital bed can, apparently. Microbiology Professor Chuck Gerba — “The Germ Doctor” says that the TV remote harbors more bacteria than “the toilet bowl handle, bathroom door and call buttons, among others. Even more disturbing is the [...]

This morning Curtis Silver posted an interesting article in Wired‘s GeekDad blog in which he asks the question, “Who controls the remote in your house?” Curtis makes some interesting arguments for restricting control to certain people, for example: My children and many like them are forbidden from touching the many remotes that control the many [...]

If you’re a geek like we are, you may have seen the pilot for the original Star Trek series, “The Cage,” created and written by the immortal Gene Roddenberry back in 1966. Roddenberry had an extraordinary knack for predicting how technology would unfold in the future. “Communicators” and “Tricorders,” for example, uncannily recall today’s smart [...]

You bought that riding mower with the cupholders and thought you were pretty cool. Or maybe you invited your friends over to admire your Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. Nice try, but these just don’t cut it anymore. We’ve long been inspired by our belief that remote control has the potential to make our lives more [...]