Using your smartphone as a controller is convenient, cost-effective, and reduces clutter by replacing multiple remotes. It offers portability, multi-device control, and customizable features like ...

We covered the Qblinks – an unusual smartphone remote control, notification, and alarm key fob device – during the summer last year. However, it never saw the light of day, and has since been ...

USATODAY.COM - Starting Monday, travelers in about 500,000 hotel rooms across the USA will have the ability to channel surf using their smartphones instead of an old-fashioned remote control. LodgeNet ...

The tech giant considers shrinking down the user interface on your TV and putting it on your phone as a way to navigate Apple TV. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

Tired of using a cumbersome remote to use your smart TV? Make the switch to a Bluetooth remote on your Android phone.

Qmote links to your smartphone and lets you control it through a series of programmable clicks. It can also adjust your home's temperature and lights. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the ...

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It’s Friday! What better time to kick back with a relaxing YouTube session after a tough week? Whether you’re watching on a PC at the office or at home, you can make it even better by turning your ...

Most standard remote controls send signals to your home theater gear using a beam of infrared light, which a sensor on your hardware picks up. You can’t see this beam, but your smartphone’s camera can ...