This make life easier, with that HD-out feature a no-brainer to access, Sony's created a TV launcher that springs to life when connected to HDMI and is navigable via mapped function buttons on your remote control or the phone's own display.
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How you will be flexible with your flexibility should circumstances require you to work in the office on one of your scheduled remote work days.
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Rather than futzing with several remote controls to turn on your television and game console, the Wii U's built-in universal remote functionality -- which functions whether or not the Wii U itself is powered on -- streamlines everything down to just the game controller.
The free SwannView app offers convenient remote viewing functionality to the DVR4-4000 or DVR8-4000 kits by allowing you to set up live remote viewing on your mobile device.
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In this case, Richardson combined a couple of Arduino circuit boards with an infrared LED light -- that little red bubble on the front of your TV remote -- and programmed the whole thing to interact with a TV's closed-captioning system.
The player has a small, square screen on the front that is "visible from any part of the room, " according to the company, so you can sit on your couch and still see what's going on, while controlling it via your Apple device or the included remote control.
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When you're on your home network, though, you can have the search results show up on your television, at which point your phone transforms into a remote you can use to scroll through menus and the like.
Ultimately, it succeeds where many other touch screen remotes fail by making it easy to control the action on your HDTV without looking at the remote.
Siri on your television set would revolutionize the remote control and make it a lot easier to find the latest election debate or the Super Bowl, especially for those of us who can never keep track of anything on TV.
Comcast ( CMCSA - news - people )--not to talk your ear off on all this stuff, but Comcast just came out with a software that works on the iPad that acts as your remote control, acts as a preview device.
Moving on to Vita and the Remote Play functionality on PS4 (which allows you to play any PS4 game on your Vita, via streaming), Yoshida said that -- unlike with the PlayStation 3's Remote Play functionality -- Sony's asking devs to try their game via Remote Play on Vita before submitting final code for publishing.
Once you're done risking everyone's life talking on the phone, fire up your Bluetooth-equipped DAP -- or just stick in a CD -- and you can stream high-fidelity audio throughout your ride, while checking out on-screen track info and navigating your music with the wireless remote.
After reading a post on Slashdot about turning your iPod into a Universal remote control I thought it would be cool if I could control my TiVo from the web.
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This way if your PC is lost or stolen or destroyed in a deluge or conflagration, your data will be stored safe on a remote server waiting for you to get yourself sorted out.
But today you could be on a remote island and with technology still market your product if you do it right.
It could turn on your camera and GPS and stream feeds to a remote server, enabling cyber-criminals to corrupt privacy settings and steal your most sensitive data (including passwords, contacts and transactions).
Besides obviously needing a CableCard-ready TV set (most new digital HDTVs have to have CableCard slots), there are a few downsides, like you can't access your cable company's onscreen programming guide and you can't order pay-per-view or video-on-demand programming (at least not using your remote), but the real deal killer for us is that you won't be able to use it with a digital video recorder.
It's great that you could control XBMC from your PSP, but what if your XBOX isn't on, and your TV isn't on, and your TV is not on the right input?? You still have to get up or find the remote and adjust all of that...
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And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.
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Naturally, it can be controlled by the Sonos app, but volume can also be toggled by your TV remote, thanks to the IR receivers on board and the remote codes stored on Sonos' servers.
The only draw back is that because of the buffering for the video, it takes 10 to 15 seconds from when you hit the remote control button until you see the result on your video stream.
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Furthermore, we can spot a SIM card door on the underside (see pic after the break) so you can get your EDGE on -- you know, for those few remote outposts left in the world that haven't discovered WiFi yet.
Sadly, with a mess of WiFi signals and Bluetooth devices at the Las Vegas Convention Center (TV Connect included), navigating TV Connect's Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean interface could only be done via physical buttons -- the TV Touch remote is otherwise advertised to interact with the camera by placing a cursor on screen, navigable by physically pointing the giant remote at your screen.
Or setting up a private cloud using tools like Remote Desktop so that all of your data is on one server instead of spread around multiple workstations?
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Watching a program at your leisure VOD-style, setting up a series recording for a new favorite or blasting it from your drive is just a click of the remote away on the DVR or one of its multiroom extenders.
If you want your character on the screen to swing his sword, you wield the remote and make the thrusts and parries yourself.
With the new BRAVIA TV, also announced today, simply touch Xperia Z to the remote control of the TV to instantly enjoy your photos and videos on the big screen.
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Curiously, the camera doesn't beep when turned on with the remote, so unless you have an assistant standing by to look at your little light it's awfully hard to tell whether you're recording.
The Boxee Box and two-faced QWERTY remote are designed to transform the Internet into something you'll love watching on your HDTV from the couch.
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