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 [...]

This morning, Jeff Bakalar over at Crave said of the new Harmony 700 remote, “It looks a lot like the Harmony One or the new Harmony 900 and the freshly announced Logitech Harmony 700 Remote only appears to be missing the touch screen found on its bigger brothers.” Keeping it in the family appears to be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]