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Universal Remote Features Bottle Opener – Pointless Genius?

by Jay Garrett on March 21, 2010

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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Blu-Ray Flippers – DVD on The B Side

by Jay Garrett on December 2, 2009

bourne-ultimatumI’m going to have to try and resist the urge for water-based mammal puns throughout this article.

Righty – the story.

Universal has unveiled the first Blu-ray/DVD ‘flipper discs’ – so named because they’ll be packing both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of a film on the same platter.

No accident – they did this on porpoise.

Gah!

Anyhow, A flipper disc is a single, dual-sided disc that has Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other.

This means that you can watch the movie on your fancy la-di-dah Blu-ray player but also loan it to a poorer friend who can only afford to own a humble DVD player or even use a laptop to watch the flick as Matt is showing in the pic.

The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum have been given the seal (sorry) of approval to be the first films to benefit from the new technology.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Play.com Takes on Apple

October 9, 2008 Click to read more →

Play.com, the online store, has just bitten a chunk out of Apple.
Their range of DRM-free music now includes artists from Sony BMG, Warner and Universal joining EMI and a host of independent labels. 
At 65-pence-per-track, that’s 14p less than the iTunes variety and you don’t need an iPod to play them either.
Smugness abounds in the Play.com camp [...]

slotMusic Will Change How You Buy Music – or not

September 22, 2008 Click to read more →

Why?
That’s my first question on discovering the latest venture by the large labels to convince us that we need another physical media to carry our tunes.
Personally CD’s are still my main alternative to MP3, etc.
I still have my vinyl but that weighs a ton. I loved the ease of tapes and I even tried MiniDisks. In fact [...]

ApriPoko Just Wants to Turn Stuff On and Off for You

March 26, 2008 Click to read more →

If you’re in the market for a gadget learning help-bot then Toshiba in Japan may have the very thing for you.
They’re in the process of putting together a talking bot that can be used as a voice-activated universal remote.
The android, called ApriPoko, stands at just under a foot tall and is capable of learning how [...]

Hands on Vid with the Modu

March 14, 2008 Click to read more →

As an update to my piece about the funky Modu modular mobile phone – click the link to Crave’s hands on vid and see this mini marvel in action!
Nice.

Modu – The Modular Mobile

February 7, 2008 Click to read more →

Meet Modu!
There has been a great deal of deliberation as to what Modu was going to be – and now I’ve found out the answer I feel slightly silly.
Modu is a Modular Mobile – the clue was there all along – spose that’s the reason why I’m a muso and not a detective!
The idea is that [...]

Imeem and Universal Link

December 10, 2007 Click to read more →

The Universal Music Group division of the French entertainment company Vivendi agreed to enable streaming of its digital-music and video catalogue through the social networking service, Imeem Inc.   Imeem has been running since 2006 and raises its income via ads.  The companies said  that the 19 million a month Imeem users can listen to and share music [...]