Even before the addition of touchpads, remote controls were pushing the boundaries in terms of size as more and more features were crammed into home entertainment devices and more and more buttons ...

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Sometimes, the best hifi gear is the gear you’ve already got. This is particularly the case in the cassette world, as high quality decks are long out of production. [Nick] liked his current rig, but ...

Your TV remote is probably the number one gadget you hate losing. Without it, watching TV is just so inconvenient. You'd either have to get up from the couch to push the buttons on the back of the TV, ...

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The Google TV app improves on that by letting you control your TV directly from your phone. It connects over Wi-Fi and turns your smartphone into a full-fledged remote for your TV. You can use it to ...

Bad user interfaces really irritate me. Some of them are so irritating, in fact, that I've decided to start awarding User Interface Booby Prizes. If you perked up at the mention of "booby," sorry to ...

Canadian smart lighting company Nanoleaf does everything a little differently. Its LED Light Panels (which made my favorite tech of 2017 list) are flat, interlocking and made to be mounted on a wall.