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.

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s 3:51 PM: do you know where your remote is? According to a new poll, chances are nay. Sky, UK’s leading entertainment and communications company has conducted a poll of 4,000 viewers on their TV remote control habits. Among the findings… “The average viewer loses it an average of 3.2 times a week and spends [...]

Behold the TV Remote; the device that works so you don’t have to. Hard to believe that “doing nothing” has come a long way, but since its first appearance in 1950, Zenith’s aptly named “Lazy Bones” was the first of its kind to capture the magic onscreen by the command of your thumb. As science-fiction [...]