PORTLAND, Ore. — The recently ratified Bluetooth 3.0 specification not only ups the wireless interface's speed to 25 Mbits per second. The spec also defines a new function called Unicast ...

Couch potatoes take note: Aiming your remote control and trying to bounce the signal off the wall is about to become a thing of the past. Remote controls are set to get an upgrade as a consortium of ...

It is the practical benefits of infrared over wireless which see it retain its position as the mainstay sensing technology for remote control applications, say Masanori Tanimura and Raimund Wagner.

Zensys, a maker of wireless remote control chips, will announce today it has received an investment from Panasonic. The Fremont, Calif. chip maker creates chips based on the Z-Wave home control ...

Infrared (IR) technology continues as a viable short-range wireless option. More than 700 million infrared (IR) receivers were shipped in 2010. While most of these devices are used for familiar remote ...

As the creator of television's first wireless remote control nearly 50 years ago, Robert Adler spawned generations of viewers who do their channel-changing from the couch. But today, the retired ...

Using IR (infrared) for consumer remote controls was an inspired choice in the late 1970s. It solved all the reliability, range and complexity issues of more costly ultrasonic devices (which struggled ...

Making life easier is the whole point of both home automation and remote controls, so the group behind the ZigBee home network specification has tried to bring the two together more tightly in a new ...