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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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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

If you took a Touch Diamond and put it one of those tumblers you had when you were a kid that you use to polish cool-looking rocks you found in your backyard, you’d probably get something like this. The Iolite — not “Lolite” as we’d previously thought — appears to rip the Touch Diamond’s basic form factor from this tiny lil’ image that’s been leaked on Expansys, but steps down to a WQVGA display from VGA. On the upside, Europeans still get their 7.2Mbps HSDPA fix, TouchFLO 3D and AGPS make it through unscathed, and the 3.2-megapixel cam carries over. No official announcement on this one, but seeing how the radio is Euro-focused, we’d expect it at MWC next month.

[Via Cellpassion]

HTC Iolite gets pictured, actually pretty blah originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Multimedia, Others, Misc, Toshiba

We swore we wouldn’t fall for tech demos of Toshiba Matsushita Display’s sexy optically compensated bend LCDs and their CRT-like ultra wide viewing angles and high refresh rates ever again but by adding autostereoscopic 3D (read: no glasses necessary) we’re falling in love all over again. By adapting a 3D film for use with 3- and 9-inch displays, this year’s CES demo promises simultaneous 2D and 3D viewing on the same display in high res. How close is OCB’s curved, rather than horizontally or vertically aligned liquid crystal approach to reality? Your guess is as good as ours but for at this time we’ll wait for some eyes-on time and throw it on the wait-and-wait-and-see heap with SED and the rest.

Toshiba Matsushita Display teases handheld, high res, no glasses 3D originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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