A group of students from the University of Toronto have completed an awesome iphone hack that could potentially replace most if not all remotes you have around the house. It’s called UiRemote (Short for Universal Infrared Remote), for iPhone only at this moment.
With the help of this small accessory, you will be able to use your iPhone to control your TV, DVD, Cable box, Projectors, Digital Photo Frames, AC, Fans, & Backyard evil robots, whereever you go. Not only does it send out the remote control signals, you can easily teach it to learn any button on any standard Remote, or even a sequence of button clicks as a macro.
This project is in the final prototype stage — The team has been busy making UI improvements and is aiming to release the infrared module and application in a month or two.
Stay tuned!
- source: uiremote.wordpress.com
If that gets released i wonder how much it would be. They should allow for users to customize the images of the buttons themselves. so if i dont want to ever use the mute button i can make it something else just by changing the graphic and reprogramming the iphone to recieve another IR signal from my remote like the channel up or channel down buttons.
I doubt this would ever be released into the app store. This will end up being another reasoon to jailbreak.
this is fucking sick. i love it cant wait to get. jailbreaking or appstore this is a great feature.
just fucking use a remote you fucking fatass
This is the best app feature I’ve seen so far. Can’t wait for it to be released. Anyone else remember the the remote control watches that came out in the early 90s? I want 1 so damn bad it was sick. this puts it to shame. Just hope the accessory is reasonable $ wise and app is cheap or a jailbreak app…