What to do when Apple’s abandoned its remote app and you don’t want to gum up your dock connector with an adaptor? Well, UnityRemote’s a great start: an infrared hub that turns iPhones and iPads into a 360-degree universal remote.
The Cyclops universal remote would fit in so well in someone’s Star Fleet quarters, I’m surprised it doesn’t have a replicator button on it. Fortunately, you won’t have to wait for the far-flung future to own one.
Back in March, Logitech announced a couple of new Harmony remotes, the 600 and the 650, which both cost less than $US100. Well, the 600 has just been announced for Australia, and in an effort Futurama’s Hermes would be proud of, they’ve managed to limbo under the $100 price point here too.
No longer will you be forced to pay out $US100 for a quality universal remote. Reign control over your lounge room with your very own remote — without it costing an arm and a leg.
Gazing at an iPhone or iPod Touch’s glass screen, some of us dream about apps, while others dream about video podcasts. Others think about porn. But others – like the folks at New Potato Technologies – look at the iPhone’s screen and think: “that would make a great universal remote”, and then create an R peripheral to make the idea possible.
ThinkFlood has just killed the first RedEye product which went on sale in December for $US188, with the massively superseding RedEye Mini. It costs only $US49 and plugs into the iPhone’s 3.5mm jack instead of via a clunky plastic dock.
There are too many Harmony remotes to keep straight, but the new Harmony 600 and 650 are welcome to confuse matters as they’ll sell for $US100 and under.
It’s not the first peripheral that turns an iPhone into a universal remote control, but this Power A case means you don’t have to slip it off when you’ve stopped using it at home – it’s got two functions.
