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iPhone You Can Drive My Car, If It's a New Mercedes Anyway

An iPhone app that lets you control your Mercedes Benz. An iPhone app that lets you control your Mercedes Benz. An iPhone app ... I mean, what more do you need to know? It's damn cool enough by itself isn't it? Mercedes Benz has ...READ»

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Sony Patents Remote Controlled Spy Car

Nintendo may have active gameplay locked up, but Sony appears to be pursuing something much more realistic: a PSP-controlled model car equipped with a camera and some extensive virtual reality software. No, it's not just ...READ»

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Stanford's Visible Energy UFO Remote-Controls Your Wall Warts

Stanford's just demonstrated a stylish way of managing the various wall chargers dotted around your home--and simultaneously created a convenient way to both kill the vampire power they draw from your electrical supply and ...READ»

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Forget Touch, Poke Out Your Tongue to Control Your iPod

Who'd have thought gesture-based controls would expand to this: A new invention by Kazuhiro Taniguchi, at Osaka University, lets you control your iPod by pulling different facial expressions. The gizmo works by having highly ...READ»

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Black and Decker Car-Style Remote Opens Your Front Door

Black and Decker have taken a long hard look at the boring old front door lock, and added in some technology that takes it into the 21st Century. Namely a car-style remote key fob so you don't kave to fiddle with a physical key, and ...READ»

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Hitachi Reinvents TV Remote As A Trackball

I'm totally left befuddled by the current trend of having full-function TV/AV remotes with two hundred tiny buttons and a screen for Windows connectivity. Instead, I'm all about simplicity, which is why Hitachi's trackball-style ...READ»

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