EDIT: It seems that both the remotes shown below are running on the same technology, provided by tvCompass. Acoustic Research has partnered with tvCompass on their remote.
Gone are the days of Universal Commanders, and in comes the Wi-fi remotes.
These new generation remotes, ride on your Wi-Fi to get various external feeds like TV listings, News etc.
We were aware of one such company in Chicago-land area, TVCompass, who were coming out with the Wi-fi smart Remote (shown on the left) but today at CEDIA-2007 Acoustic Research unveiled their Wi-Fi remote (shown on the right), which I must say has a lot of resemblance with the TVCompass remote.
The opportunities in this arena are begining to unfold now. Getting your devices controlled from a single remote is the basic feature, but these remotes can open up areas for other content developers. Getting personalized feeds on your remote, emails clients thrown on the remote etc.
Time to give the remote some respect!
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