Holy Grail of Remote Controls

castilejw writes "CNN has an article showing where researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have teamed with researchers from Maya Designs, Inc. to produce the ultimate universal remote, which "would choreograph not just home entertainment systems but also intelligent appliances all around the house: microwave ovens, clothes dryers, air conditioners.". The device they have shown is a modified Compaq iPAQ, which they have so far modified to control two lamps, a fan and a stereo with a five-CD changer." Seems like that much is pretty easy. Now when it can control my answering machine, my MP3 collection, and my garage door, I'll be ready to automate my soul. Update: 09/02 15:34 GMT by CT : Oops, this is a duplicate. Move along :) We suck so much. Blah blah blah.

Comments

Interesting

[barureddy]

I find it interesting how quickly people posted deja vu.

Too late!

[richie2000]

Timothy beat you to it, Taco-man!

D'oh!

[Maran]

Another repeat. And this one isn't a day old. Oh look, it was Taco who re-posted again.

Seriously, Taco, we all appreciate the work you and the others put into keeping slashdot going, but some sort of anti-repost mechanism would be useful. I know no method's foolproof, but this one even had the same url!

Alternatively, why doesn't someone repost every article for three weeks, then go back to normal - that way everybody'll be so impressed at the change, they'll stop complaining ^_^

Maran

Wow!

[leibnizme]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/01/013524 5&mode=thread&tid=159

The next thing you know, Intel will release a 2.80 GHz processor! Oh, wait...