While the iPhone and iPod touch may be wonderful devices for performing any number of tricks, they’re not particularly good universal IR remote controls when coupled with infrared dongles or cases.

While there is growing adoption of the ZigBee RF4CE remote control standard, few real products are available to replace the ubiquitous infrared (IR) remote controls. Still, consumer electronic giants ...

You'd think a remote control technology that was first introduced in the 1980s would be completely obsolete by now. But infrared (IR) remotes are still very much kicking half a century later, despite ...

After using bluetooth remotes for a while, I can't help but be frustrated when I have to go back to traditional IR remotes. Why hasn't the industry moved to something else yet? Is it just momentum at ...

One of the two key “cons” in my review was that the $230 Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, which I otherwise praised as the best way to make your lights pulse in sync with your TV, didn’t ship with a remote, ...