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Toys
Mini HoverDrone Goes Up, Down And Into The Junk Drawer
7:30AM Jack Loftus | For about $US20, this tiny HoverDrone will hover and flash its little lights. And then the dog will eat it. More »
Software
TweetMyPC: Remote Control Your PC With Twitter
8:00AM Matt Buchanan | Twitter is officially useful with this easy way to remote control your PC: Install TweetMyPC, setup a Twitter account and tell your computer what to do from anywhere. [TweetMyPC via Ghacks via Lifehacker] More »
Software
VLC Remote App Controls The Baddest Media Player Via iPhone
4:30AM John Mahoney | You can drop practically any file onto VLC’s orange cone, and if there is media buried somewhere within its digital crevices, VLC will find it and play it. Now, control the action via iPhone. More »
Software
MythTV’s MyMote iPhone Remote App
6:40AM Jason Chen | The idea of controlling your DVR via your iPhone is nothing new, but this MythTV iPhone remote allows Linux DVR users to get in on the fun of using their phones as visual remotes. It’s got a real-time program guide so you can easily set recordings, plus the standard channel and volume buttons to flip around channels with. The only thing we have to complain about is that the UI is fairly ugly and not refined at all, but it’s bearable. Unfortunately all of us here use either TiVo or Media Center or the cheap set-top-box provided from our Cable company, so we can’t test it out. Let us know how it works for you. [eHomeUpgrade] More »
Software
8:49PM Nick Broughall | Steve from Tomizone is playing around with his iPhone 3G, downloading apps from the App Store and getting a whole heap of us excited for the Vodafone store opening in just over an hour.
One app he’s just downloaded is the iTunes remote app – it lets you use your iPhone or iPod Touch to control iTunes on your Mac or PC. As you can see from the video above, it works flawlessly…
More than that though, it will also work with your Apple TV. With more and more apps like this one, the iPhone will quickly become a must have tool for pretty much everyone.
Bring on the launch…
[iPhone 3G launch on Giz] More »
iTunes Remote Control Is Awesome
8:49PM Nick Broughall | Steve from Tomizone is playing around with his iPhone 3G, downloading apps from the App Store and getting a whole heap of us excited for the Vodafone store opening in just over an hour.
One app he’s just downloaded is the iTunes remote app – it lets you use your iPhone or iPod Touch to control iTunes on your Mac or PC. As you can see from the video above, it works flawlessly…
More than that though, it will also work with your Apple TV. With more and more apps like this one, the iPhone will quickly become a must have tool for pretty much everyone.
Bring on the launch…
[iPhone 3G launch on Giz] More »
Robots
Team from UC San Diego Use Human Face as Remote-Control Unit
9:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | This is possibly the ultimate hack–turning your face into a remote control unit. A computer-science Ph.D student from UC San Diego can use his fizzog to speed up or slow down video, as part of a project that hopes to make robots better teachers using automated facial expression recognition. More »
Gadgets
Disney RC Tinkerbell Ornithopter Redefines the Term ‘Flying Fairy’
9:07AM Benny Goldman | This Disney RC Tinker Bell is one seriously sweet flying fairy. As you see in the video, it’s using WowWee’s FlyTech ornithopter-type vertical flying system to flutter, glide and dive around this Waldorf-Astoria suite. It’ll be out in the spring for $US40. [Disney] More »
Random Stuff
Flying RC Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech
8:00AM Jason Chen | We had to double check that this wasn’t a story about Second Life, but rather is an actual event in actual meatspace occurring this past weekend in Moscow. As former chess champion Garry Kasparov was giving a speech to unite opposition political forces, a radio-controlled penis flew across the room to some applause and laughter. The fun was ended when a dour-faced man smashed the penis out of the air. That’s always the case, isn’t it? Some guy’s having fun with a flying penis with someone joker just has to ruin the party. [India Times via Sharenator] More »
Toys
Snelflight Jump Jet, a Fast R/C Micro-Aircraft That Hovers Too
6:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | You know, remote control micro-aircraft are cool, whether they hover like ‘copters, fly like birds, or do both: like the new Jump Jet from Snelflight. It’s a kind of mashup toy, with four rotors to keep it aloft in the hover, or tilted to propel it forward, vectored-thrust style. From the demo video of a prototype in flight, it looks much easier to control than the multiple-crashing Chinook: More »
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