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.

Hardcore (-ish) band The Dillinger Escape Plan recently announced that it will include a television quashing universal remote in limited edition box sets…

Setting up a universal remote can be a big hassle.  First you have to find the button combination to enter setup mode, and then you have to find the right code to enter — usually printed in small type in a user guide. Somtimes there is an auto-program feature, but these can be hit or [...]

Everyone knows how awful it is searching through their Universal Remote’s instruction guide and trying to find the right code for your TV — trying each of the possible codes for your TV until one works, and then repeating it all over again for the DVD player.  Well the QuickSet from Universal Electronics (UEI) may [...]

With all these “green” products being released now you would think the planet’s climate would be all set.  We’ve got everything from eco-friendly bikinis, big “green” bombs, and magically “clean” coal. Now One for All has joined the green product blitz with their Energy Saver Remote — a salvo against the “stand by power consumption” [...]

Calling all Muggles. Have you ever wished you could just turn on your TV while sitting down with some magical device? Well I guess that’s already been done, but I bet you wished you could look like Harry Potter while doing it – and now you can.  Introducing the Kymera Magic Wand, a gesture [...]

The CEDIA Expo starts tomorrow, so we expect this to be a big week for home automation and remote control news. To get things started, Global Caché has announced its new iTach line. Similar to their existing GC-100 products in basic functionality (connecting an infrared or serial device to your LAN), the iTach has added [...]

In a CEDIA preview article on CEPro.com, Universal Remote Control (URC) unveiled some details on their new KP-4000 in-wall touchscreen control panel.  This two-way RS-232 and IP communication control panel is a new direction for URC, and another step further into the home automation arena, long dominated by Crestron and Control4.
High-end home automation is not [...]