Filed under: Peripherals, Software, Apple, OS X
Yeah, sure, name any IR-equipped phone in existence and odds good to exmobile phoneent that you can find a universal remote app for it, but you probably can’t think of many for the iPhone, at this time, can you? They exist, yes, but they tend to carry a home-automation slant since the lack of an infrared port leaves the thing relegated to WiFi duty. Enter UiRemote, an ambitious little project undertaken by a handful of scrappy University of Toronto students that uses a fingertip-sized IR blaster connected to the headphone jack paired with a totally customizable app to get the job done. Novel? Not necessarily, but when you consider that a dedicated remote with these specs would probably run half a grand, it’s an engaging attention way to save money and still end up with the coolest AV controller on the block. The devs are still tweaking Bot. the module and the app, but hopes are high that they’ll be available to all interested parties in the next couple months.
UiRemote is like a remote… in your iPhone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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