Commonor's Remote Control Castle
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The automated life used to be the exclusive realm of the rich. Now home automation is coming to a subdivision near you. By Tom Vanderbilt from Wired magazine.
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By Fiona MacRae  AS any truly dedicated couch potato will tell you, it can be tiring pressing the buttons on the remote control.  But even that exertion might soon be avoided with the arrival of the thought-activated television.
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Satellite-enabled turn-by-turn navigation, whether you're in a car or on foot
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Portable player as AirPort Express remote control?
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TightVNC is a free remote control package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.   Version 1.3.8 is expected to be final Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release. The changes include improved support for Win32 mirror display driver (DFMirage by DemoForge), GUI improvements, and a number of bugfixes including one for infamous disconnect problem of the Win32 Server.  Download TightVNC 1.3.8 from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14067
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Sep. 11--THE NEW CENTER OF ATTENTION: Millions of us flip on the TV set  after a hard day's work.    But a large and growing number reach instead for the power buttons on  their home computers.
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In the current issue: &nbsp;October 2006  Slap a "Powered by Linux" sticker on your front door. The October issue of Linux Journal takes "Linux Everywhere" literally. See how Linux runs a total multimedia center like TiVo on steroids, serves as a central phone system with call screening, regulates your home heating system, controls robots and much more.  This isn't just a digital lifestyle, it's a Linux lifestyle of leisure, which proves that geeks, particularly Linux geeks, truly have the best toys.  Not a subscriber? Check out this post to read abstracts of the current issues' articles and to read for "free" this months Bonus Article: Do-It-Yourself Robots with Linux by Michael Surran.
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You can flip off your widescreen TV with the remote control. Power down your computer to standby. Unplug your cellphone from its charger. But as you leave the room, the "wall warts" -- those small boxes plugged into the wall sockets that power your electronics -- stare with glowing diode eyes in ...
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The Messiah Darklite DVD remote looks a lot like LG's Chocolate cell phones, and it allows you to control your PlayStation 3 without using a gaming controller.
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Ingenious hacks abound for the game console's input device. Plus: The
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After spending billions on Rube Goldberg contraptions, the military notices commercial devices already exist. Could a TiVo-like gizmo help them find a car bomber? In Danger Room.
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Since the invention of the remote control, political campaigns have had a tough time persuading viewers to sit and watch their television ads rather than switching to another channel.
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Chief executive Colin Angle offers a vision for the robot home contrary to the one you might have looked forward to as a kid.Photos: iRobot phones home, cleans gutters
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Head-Aimed Remote Viewer (HARV) gives robot drivers a better view.
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I'm writing this from CES 2007 &#151; the latest and greatest Consumer Electronics Show, where 140,000 attendees crowd 2,700 exhibits packed into 1,660,000 square feet of space in more halls and hotels than I'll bother to count. There's a lot of noise here, and a certain amount of signal; though the ratio of the former to the latter is no less lopsided than it always is. Everybody's not only showing their good sides, but paying millions to crow about it through mass quantities of advertising and PR. \
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It also has all the usual controls you'd expect from a presentation remote: a laser pointer, slide advancer and screen blanker and a mouse controller.
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ConnectR communications robot lets you see who's talking and follow them around the room.