Philips has released RC9800i – high-end universal remote control. But there is a little kicker – wireless photo and music streaming using Wi-Fi. Once I wrote about NevoSL – another universal remote control with possibility to control many home electric devices. It looks better but its price is bigger than RC9800i price twice! RC9800i is ~$300 and NevoSL is ~$600. [via T3]
Another candidate for Plutohome Orbiter
Today I found another UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) family from Tabletkiosk. I’m interested in UMPC to have Windows/Linux-based Orbiters for Plutohome because currently there is an only one Windows-based Orbiter – WebDT 366. It’s price starts from $1600. eo UMPC v7110 is just $899 and it has better features: CPU: VIA C7M NaNo 1.0GHz RAM: 1 x SODIMM DDR2 Slot with 256MB Hard Drive: 2.5″ […]
VLC and Apple
VideoLAN team, distributor of the cross-platform media player VLC and streaming server, announced last week drop support for G4 and G5 based series of Mac computers. The next version of VLC will be run on the Intel-based Mac PC only. It’ll be much easier for VLC developers concentrate on the one PC architecture. They will have more time to fix existing bugs and improve VLC […]
More than just a remote control
NevoSL is not a just remote control. It can be a control center for your smart home (see picture below). NevoSL contains inside: 203 MHz embedded Samsung processor 32 MB RAM / 64 MB SDRAM 3.5†QVGA TFT a 64K colors (rosilution is 320×240) built-in 802.11b Wi-Fi USB 1.1 port Microsoft Windows CE 4.2 It’s cool and really geek device but its price is also […]
Samsung Q1
Samsung is going to release a new cool device – Ultra Mobile PC Q1 / Origami. Inside Q1 is: Celeron M ULV 900MHz 256MB (upgradeable to 1GB) Intel 915GMS chipset 60GB drive (up from 40GB!) Ethernet 802.11b/g Bluetooth 2.0 EDR two USB 2.0 ports VGA out audio out 7-inch 800 x 480 display Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with new Touch Pack I see that […]
Gateway for digital TV
Company Sling Media released Slingbox – geek device which allows to stream digital TV from Freeview/PVR/Sky box over LAN. It also supports remote control. Integration with SlingPlayer Mobile allows to watch digital TV on PDA or smartphone. For more information have a look a full list of Slingbox features. Here you can see a couple photos of Slingbox. $249.99 for this device is very reasonable […]
VLC on Nokia770
Nokia770 seems very popular and power device. It’s time to watch a digital TV on it using VLC. VLC is well-known the cross-platform media player and streaming server. It might be interesting to port it under Nokia770 because it has Wi-Fi connection and can be used as mobile terminal to watch video stream from your home VDR server for example. I found the post Porting […]
Playing with Media Director
I spent two hours to setup 64bit diskless Media Director but as result I got nothing. The Media Director booted find but on-screen Orbiter didn’t start. When it tried to run X Window it crashed. It seems that video adapter S3 Trio32/64 is not good for Pluto MD and I tried to setup another MD with different video adapter. The second PC was 32bit and […]