The ThinkFlood RedEye is designed to give you universal remote control capability with your iPhone or iPod Touch. The $188 system includes a charging cradle with attractive blue interior LED lighting, and a free iPod/iPhone app that you download from Apple’s App Store.

RedEye uses your Wi-Fi network to receive remote commands from your iPhone or iPod, and then its on-board infrared emitter transmits those commands to your home theater devices. How did it work? We connected the RedEye to our network and put it through its paces.

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In a move that bodes well for that website to download a little faster on your cellphone, Scandinavian service provider TeliaSonera just switched on the world’s first Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellphone network in Stockholm and Olso. Right now the only product capable of receiving the beefy 4G bandwidth of LTE is a Samsung Kalmia modem USB dongle (Model GT-B3710), but handsets are planned for the New Year. Theoretical download speeds are said to be 10 times 3G, or 100Mbps, though realistically it would only be a fraction of that (still way better than 3G).

It’s great to see LTE tech finally move out of the “buzzed about on the Internet and at trade shows” phase and into the “it’s here” stage, though predictably it didn’t happen in the U.S. (not exactly know for its innovative cellphone networks). It’s not all bad news stateside, though: Sprint has been slowly but steadily expanding its 4G network, based on WiMax technology, and Verizon and AT&T have plans to deploy LTE networks next year and beyond. Maybe then we’ll finally be able to use SlingPlayer for iPhone outside of a Wi-Fi hotspot.

TeliaSonera, via Engadget

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There are a select few inventions that have changed the course of human history. The cotton gin. The printing press. Penicillin. And now, added onto that illustrious list, are the Fusion Finger Tongs. They let you pick up and flip over bacon without burning yourself! Your life begins anew today, my friends.

ThinkGeek via Gizmodo

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We already have a chair in the office that twitters your toots, but now there’s a bed that tweets when you get busy. The anonymous creator made this bed for his anonymous friend and it lets the world know when the action begins and ends and the intensity of the action. Too much information? We’ll s…
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Sandra Betzina and the Power Sewing community announce their 12 Days of Christmas Gifts Giveaway! Starting December 13th, they will be hosting a daily drawing to win one of many fabulous prizes for your sewing room. As a special reward to the Instructables community, subscribers to Sandra are auto…
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In our quest to convince you that set-top boxes are useless, this is the kind of PC we have in mind. Mount this Piixl EdgeCenter 3770 Media PC behind your flat panel display, and you won’t even know there’s a PC involved.

Just 30mm deep, you can tack this onto the back of any screen between 37 and 70 inches. Its slim form factor belies its power, loaded with a Core i7 processor, four TV tuners, and super-fast graphics, pushing it well into 1080p playback territory. It’s not the ultimate flat PC, but it’s fast enough for any home theater task you’d choose to throw at it.

Beautiful as it is, don’t get sucked into buying this overpriced $4043 PC — but admire its form factor, knowing that within a year or two you’ll be able to get the same thing for a 10th the price.

This is the PC of the future: invisible, and able to bring you an Internet full of unfettered content. It’s a world where you (and not some hardware box manufacturer) decide whether you can watch Hulu or not.

Via Engadget

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In many circles, the Nissan GT-R is referred to as simply “Godzilla”, and with good reason. Cranking out 480 horsepower out of a twin-turbo V6, Nissan’s halo car is a track monster and a winner of many hearts and minds. But can it ever be green?

Maybe. Rumor has it that Nissan is considering a hybrid version of the GT-R that will provide better fuel economy without sacrificing performance. Say what?

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According to an analysis conducted by the National Research Council and partly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the roll-out of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) to the U.S. market will be too slow to have any real effect on our greenhouse gas emissions or oil addiction until at least the 2030s.

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