Showing posts with label Remote Control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remote Control. Show all posts
Thursday, October 29, 2009

The R/C Metal Detecting Dune Buggy

When you picture someone out and about with a metal detector, I imagine you’re probably picturing someone older and retired. Well for those that are still pretty young, but would like to search for treasures of their own, there’s this car. This is the way you search for metal. None of carrying around a heavy metal detector, no, with this you can have fun and let it scout out ahead of you. When this little car detects metal it will start flashing a red light and begin beeping. The car itself can move forward, backward, left and right. It has a range of 25′ so you could let it scout out a fairly large area without having to move around. It also has adjustable sensitivity for different types of terrain. Included with the car are two plastic digging tools along with 3 faux gold doubloons that are made out of metal. You can bury those doubloons to practice searching for metal. The car runs on 4 AA batteries and a 9V battery. It will run for up to 4 hours before it dies. You can purchase it for $49.95

Motion-Sensitive Remote Control

What you are seeing here is not a vacuum cleaner attachment or what happened after an aardvark sneezed. This is a motion-sensitive remote control. I realize that was probably your last guess, assuming you didn’t lose interest after my somewhat weak aardvark joke. This concept remote control device, known as the “Remotion” is designed by Ryan Sorrell, and has some Motion Control like the Wiimote or the Loop. As you can see, buttons are absent from this device as the user moves it to his or her liking. Adjusting the volume is as simple as shaking it up or down. In order to change stations, you move it left or right with a flick of the wrist. Well, this looks like a good way for couch potatoes to lose from extra fat from their wrist, but I can’t help but want more commands for my remote. For example, could I use it to operate my DVR? Maybe if I held it up a certain way and turned it left, that could be rewind, and turning it to the right could be fast-forward. The possibilities are…well, quite limited. Especially when most houses have all sorts of devices hooked to their television, and the universal remote market is growing.

Logitech announces Harmony 900 remote

Remote controls have become a staple device for many of us these days, and more often than not there will be a tussle among family members for essential remotes in the living room at prime time for obvious reasons. Logitech themselves have delved into the world of remote controls in the past, and they show no signs of slowing down in that department. Recently, the Swiss company has rolled out the Logitech Harmony 900 remote that boasts redesigned RF technology, a full color touchscreen display alongside intuitive button layout to help even newbies get used to it as soon as possible. The Logitech Harmony 900 remote relies on rechargeable batteries to keep it going, allowing you to enjoy a whole range of entertainment from movies to games and music even when the respective components are located safely behind cabinet doors. The Logitech Harmony 900 remote’s redesigned RF system turns you into a mini living room deity, capable of controlling an entire cabinet’s worth of devices and appliances as long as they remains within a 100 foot radius. This remote also allows you to wield such powers without getting bogged down by hassles and problems that are normally associated with RF setups. All you need to do is place the IR blaster that comes with each purchase alongside one or two of the mini blasters on the cabinet shelves near the devices that you want to gain control and you’re good to go. The color touchscreen devices allows you to choose your device of choice with but a gentle touch of the finger, and when the setup process is complete, you’re able to control everything programmed inside even with the cabinet doors closed. Expect the Logitech Harmony 900 remote to arrive in the US and Europe later next month for $399.99 a pop, where it will be accompanied by a recharging cradle, rechargeable battery, power supply, IR blaster and two mini blasters. Logitech has plans to roll out more blasters and mini blasters online in selected regions.