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Turn Your iPhone into a Universal Infrared Remote

Posted by admin | Posted in Mobile, iPhone | Posted on 23-01-2009

While the Apple app store has a range of ideas to turn your iPhone into a handheld gaming device or even beer glass, there hasn’t been anything in the way of turning it into a IR remote to control your TV and DVD player. Until now. Despite the fact the the iPhone doesn’t have an IR emitter (which may account for the lack of this functionality up til now) some students at the University of Toronto have made this feasible.

They have created the UiRemote which is an iPhone app plus an IR widget that will plug into the headphone jack of the iPhone and will turn sound into IR pulses. How neat is that?

The UiRemote is still in prototype stage and not available for sale, but there is hoping they will commercialise it within the next few months.

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  1. pat said...

    Maybe someone should considering making an IR Flasher with Wifi input for the iPod.

    Posted on: 22/Mar/2009 at 12:03
  2. How I Lost Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days said...

    Hi, good post. I have been thinking about this issue,so thanks for sharing. I’ll certainly be coming back to your site.

    Posted on: 4/May/2009 at 02:05
  3. GarykPatton said...

    Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more?

    Posted on: 16/Jun/2009 at 08:06
  4. CrisBetewsky said...

    Hello! Thanks for the post. It is really amazing! I will definitely share it with my friends.

    Posted on: 7/Jul/2009 at 01:07
  5. Drunk Chics Pics said...

    hm… luv it

    Posted on: 12/Oct/2009 at 12:10

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