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Were I a regular blokey-bloke my weekends would be spent watching a variety of sports whilst downing many cold beers.

Instead I’m usually out gigging with one of my bands (Subset and ByeByeKurt) or watching a gig whilst drinking a wide variety of alcoholic beverages.

Anyhow, if I did have the spare time to enjoy sitting in front of the box to watch a DVD or something with a beer The Clicker could be the remote of choice.

Now there’s no need to have three remote controls AND a bottle opener on the coffee table as The Clicker features a bottle opener added to a universal remote.

That’s right – you can open your brew and channel surf at the same time with just one device!!

Personally I’d rather have this CRISTAL table and drink from cans or buy Tuborg as they’ve pull caps on their bottles ;)

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I can imagine plenty of kids rubbing their hands with glee and the thought of getting one of these – as well as some older kids as well. Yes: I’m looking at you!

The Wild Planet Spy Video TRAKR can be remotely controlled and be used to sneak into rooms, underneath changing room doors, into locker-rooms, errrrrrrrrm…..

Anyhow; the TRAKR is equipped with a video camera so that the user can capture covert moving pictures as well as being to eaves-drop on conversations thanks to the inbuilt mic.

Should the controller wish to announce their presence there’s even a built-in speaker on the car and a microphone on the remote control.

The spy-bot can also be tweaked thanks to its own app site.

“With the Spy Video TRAKR, we’re teaching kids how to write their own applications and program their toys to do exactly what they want them to do.”

“Play should not be confined by the concepts and programs toy companies create,” says Daniel Grossman, CEO of Wild Planet Entertainment, Inc. “With the Spy Video TRAKR, we’re teaching kids how to write their own applications and program their toys to do exactly what they want them to do.”

The potential voyeurism starts in October at a price of $120

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Parrot AR.Drone Mixes iPhone, Augmented Reality and Wi-Fi Controlled Helicopter to Make Want!

January 6, 2010 Click to read more →
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Say hello to the latest reason to get excited if you own an iPhone.
Using the handsets accelerometer and connecting via Wi-Fi you can fly the Parrot AR.Drone!
As if that wasn’t cool enough it has two on-board cameras that beam a pilots-eye view right to your phones screen.
This means that you don’t need to see the [...]

AirStash – Pocket Wireless External Drive for iPhone and iPod Touch

January 4, 2010 Click to read more →
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Whether you have the 8GB iPhone or rocking the 32GB version I’m a firm believer that you can never have too much storage space on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
I reckon the lovely, thoughtful folk that bring the wonderment of AirStash think the same.
AirStash, as you can see in the pic, looks like a USB [...]

Kymera Wand – Magic Control of Your Tech

September 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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Last week I had the good fortune to join in Firebox’s show-and-tell preview of their Christmas line.
Apart from the fizzy vodka, which was rather nice, it was a real magic wand that remained in my mind as I left The Gallery on Charing Cross Road.
The Kymera wand is the product of Chris Barnardo of The Wand [...]

CRISTAL – The largest Universal Remote Could Replace Your Coffee Table

August 16, 2009 Click to read more →
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Your Universal Remote may be useful but it’s not as big, funky or sociable as this: The CRISTAL
CRISTAL is a research project that moves the uni-mote to a Microsoft Surface-type table with incredibly intuitive gestures.
Feel like watching a film?  Just drag the DVD cover to your TV!  Simples!  :)
You could even track a path for [...]

Apple TV Brings the iPhone Wii Motion Style Remote Control

June 25, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple has just released the 2.40 update to AppleTV along side a revamp of the iPhone Remote application.
This now lets you wave your iPhone around like a motion controller to get what you’re after.
Audio or video playback are controlled by flicking left or right to rewind or fast forward, respectively. You can show chapter markers when [...]

Panasonic Gel Remote – Breathes and Gets Stiff [odd concept]

June 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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This odd Dali-esque gel remote comes courtesy of Panasonic’s concept dept.
The control lays limp when not in use, pulsating with a soft light.
But when it detects a warm hand coming to grip it and put it to use it stiffens – ready for action!
The remote is made from soft, flesh-like gel and appears cold [...]

Monster Home Theatre Remote – Retro Cool and Affordable (Unlike Other Things From Monster)

June 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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Monster unveiled plenty of new kit at the Consumer Electronics Association’s New York showcase including a super-thin cable for HDMI, high-speed cables for HDMI, a tabletop universal remote, and new speed tiers for its PowerNet networking solution.
To be honest it’s the controller from Monster that’s caught my eye purely because of its retro-ness.
I can’t find any [...]

London Drivers to Have Their Speed Controlled via Satellite

May 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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It looks like Transport for London is planning to control the speed of vehicles from the skies!
TFL has just announced a large-scale trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaption system – this uses preloaded road data and GPS to track and slow naughty speed-freaks.
The Daily Mail put together the infographic to help explain how the ‘ISA’ system [...]

TweetMyPC – PC Remote Control via Twitter

May 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you’re looking for a way to remotely control your PC and you happen to have a Twitter account – today is your lucky day!
It couldn’t be simpler -  Install TweetMyPC , setup a Twitter account and tell your computer what to do from anywhere.
You then just have to hope that Twitter doesn’t get hacked [...]

Zeemote Bluetooth Game Controller Comes Alone

February 25, 2009 Click to read more →

Zeemote is now going solo.
The Bluetooth game controller for mobile phone games is finally available as a stand-alone product rather than part of a mobile gaming bundle.
The Zeemote shares a lot with Nintendo’s WiiMote apart from it’s wireless and capable of controlling games without being attached to the end of a motion-sensing remote control.
There’s some pretty sweet mobile games [...]

LG LBA-C300 The First QWERTY Card

February 6, 2009 Click to read more →

We all know about Bluetooth enabled portable keyboards.
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a ”Qwerty Card” though.  Nope.  Pretty sure I haven’t.
But here is the LG’s LBA-C300, which was found in a recent FCC filing and it is in fact a QWERTY card.
It’s a credit card styled Bluetooth keyboard for use, I’m guessing, with LG mobiles [...]

Logitech Harmony 1100 Grabs CES 2009 Award

January 12, 2009 Click to read more →

The Logitech Harmony 1100 remote has received the CES 2009 Design and Engineering Award: Best of Innovations in the Home-Entertainment Accessories category.
It’s the second year in a row that a Logitech Harmony remote has scooped this award.
The Logitech Harmony 1100 is expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe beginning in February for a suggested retail [...]

Green Peak’s Everlasting Remote Will Zap Through Walls!

January 12, 2009 Click to read more →

Eco-greendom is most people’s watch-word these days – tele’s, hi-fi’s, puters and gaming all aiming to be greener.
One thing that tends to get overlooked is how much your remote controls are used when channel hopping and selecting those righteous tracks for some mood music or party-party-time!
Not so, for those tree-lovers: GreenPeak.
Don’t switch off though! GP’s battery-saving remote control [...]

Black & Decker To Release Remote Control Door Locks

December 30, 2008 Click to read more →

Passing a lump of shaped metal into a corresponding orifice then twisting it just to open or secure your abode too much for you?
Well those tool-meisters, Black & Decker, are to launch a “state-of-the-art remote wireless residential access control solution” that could see you locking your front door remotely.
Black & Decker’s motorised electronic deadbolts can [...]

Unify 4 Life Changes Blackberry Into Universal Remote

November 24, 2008 Click to read more →

Blackberries.  They’re a bit…..business like generally aren’t they?
Well, that was my impression until I read about this hardware and software thingy from Canada.
This clever stuff will magically change your BlackBerry into a universal remote control for a typical AV set up, your lights, your garage door or anything else that you have remotely controlled! 
Unify4Life supplies an AV [...]

Santa Micro-Helicopter – Rudolph, Donner and Blitzen on Holiday

November 9, 2008 Click to read more →

It’s time that Santa got up-to-date and also gave Rudolf et al a Christmas off for once.
It seems that he’s letting the Reindeer have a crimbo-party and delivering the gifts by way of a ‘Little Nellie’ style copter – which is nice.
This R/C flying Santa micro copter is guided about the place via a 3-channel [...]

G-Dog – Nothing to do With Gangsta Rap yo!

November 7, 2008 Click to read more →

Yo! Check it bruv.
Dis ere is my dawg; G-Dog yo!
Ahem………..
Sorry but for some reason this robo-mut makes me wanna spit gangsta style.
Perhaps it has something to do with this robo-mut being called G-Dog.
Japanese robot maker HPI will start selling this robotic dog, the above named later this month.
The mainly aluminium pooch-droid is powered by a [...]

Sony Rolly Gets Bluetooth Mobile Phone Control

October 28, 2008 Click to read more →

The Sony Rolly has always been an enigma to me.
Ok, it’s cute - It’s probably one of the cutest small speakers around.
But.
It’s a portable, trundling, dancing speaker – but the sound isn’t great for £250.
It’s a music player able to stream via A2DP Bluetooth or play from its internal flash but there’s no place to shove your [...]