TV Remote Moves Over for a Mouse
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With a new fall season getting under way, will audiences leave behind the tyranny of the broadcast schedule and make up their own fall television schedule by downloading?
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It's becoming easy to extoll the virtues of Nintendo's successful Wii console. The system's interactive controls have given many of us good reason to get our butts off the sofa and into some animated flailing with the Wii's remote control.
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. - A keychain device that enables people to turn off TVs just about anywhere is flying off the shelves, its inventor says.
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A device due out next year will wirelessly stream video and music from a Macintosh computer to a television.
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(InfoWorld) - Logitech fused the old with the new on Thursday, launching a wireless laser mouse that doesn't need a surface to sit on, combining features of the traditional mouse and remote control. The MX Air Mouse works either on a surface or held in the air. In the air, users move the mouse up, down, sideways or in a circle to navigate, and they make selections by pressing buttons and touch-sensitive points on the mouse. In place of a scroll wheel, it has a touch-sensitive scroll panel. The MX Air Mouse is designed for people who use PCs for entertainment, said Andy Hengel, a product manager at Logitech. The mouse's features worked well with a Windows Media Center Edition PC in a product demonstration. A user navigated the PC's media content by moving the mouse in the air. Buttons and controls on top of the mouse were used to select music and movies to play, as with a remote control. Some functions can be controlled using "gesture-based commands," where users can move the mouse in the air to change volume or skip or repeat music tracks. After pressing the volume button, a user can move the mouse right to increase volume and left to turn it down. Pressing the play/pause button and moving the mouse clockwise or counterclockwise to move a song forward or backward. The MX Air Mouse performs well from any angle, Hengel said. It can ignore minor, unintentional hand movements to keep the mouse's movement smooth. The device can communicate with a PC from as far as 30 feet. It communicates with an RF receiver plugged in a PC's USB (Universal Serial Bus) port. The mouse also runs with Windows XP and Vista and will work with Mac OS X soon, Hengel said. The $149.99 mouse will ship in early August in the U.S. and Europe.
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By Rob Kasper, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 9--Over the weekend we moved our home computer.   I thought this would be easier than moving furniture, say lugging a sofa bed up a flight of stairs.   Now I am not so sure.
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By COURTNEY SHERWOOD  Comcast wants more control over TV viewers' remotes in Clark County, according to a report out this month.  The cable television provider wants to do away with local oversight of basic cable services, which would allow Comcast Corp.
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Slackers, rejoice! Remote controls can now be used to shop from home.
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Logitech plans to show off a mini-keyboard that controls a person&#39;s PC wirelessly from the comforts of their family room sofa.The handheld QWERTY keyboard, called the diNovo Mini keyboard, is designed for people who have connected their PCs to their TVs, allowing them to access photos, videos, and other content on the PCs as well as navigate the Web and watch downloaded shows on their TV, the company said.The mini-keyboard uses Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology to control PC functions and includes hotkeys for media players and Web browsers, as well as page-up and page-down buttons that allow people to scroll when surfing the Web and zoom in and out of documents and images. Bluetooth has a range of around 30-feet from the PC, Logitech said.The device also incorporates ClickPad, a round, thumb-sized pad for use in pointing, scrolling or clicking on a Web link. It can also be used as a media remote and a directional pad to navigate menus and make selections. The ClickPad is backlit in orange when in touch-pad mode, and green when it is in media-remote mode.The keyboard keys are always backlit in orange to keep the device on the eyes.The diNovo Mini keyboard is expected to go on sale in the U.S. and Europe in late January for US$149.99.
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Device offers remote programming, features a whopping 400GB of storage.
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By Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--Links, threads, webs, tangles. Call 'em what you will. But the magic of the Internet is -- to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld's joke about why men like to hog the TV remote control -- not so much a matter of what's there, as what else might be there.
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The HDTV technology company is moving a key part of its future in house.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- For anyone who's ever clicked the TV remote thinking there must be something better on another channel, it's a dream come true.Researchers have built a room where hundreds of programs appear on a large, wraparound screen.
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Logitech's new MX Air Mouse doesn't need to sit on desk to work, you can wave it around--just like the Ninetendo Wii controller.
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If you're tired of watching out-of-focus YouTube videos on your computer screen, now you'll be able to watch out-of-focus YouTube videos on your TV.
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Researchers are working on the nose-mouse, and other unorthodox ways of moving a cursor.
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Sounds like a stupid question doesn&#39;t it? A mouse is simply a tool that you use on your computer to point at various things and click on them.