RedEye turns iPhone into a full-fledged universal remote

For US$188, convert your iPhone 3G/3GS and iPod touch into a universal remote control with Thinkflood's RedEye. This nifty gizmo comprises a custom software that runs on Apple gear and an infrared blaster doubling as a charging dock. RedEye also operates through Wi-Fi and offers most high-end remote functions. These include activity-based macro programming such as "watch DVD" which fires a string of commands, learning capability for added product compatibility and Web-downloadable codes that maintain your RedEye applications up-to-date.
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Are manufacturers shifting resources away from satnav devices?

When Motorola's Droid smartphone debuted on Verizon, the inclusion of Google Maps Navigation beta--real-time, turn-by-turn, rerouting GPS-fueled directions--sent the stocks of standalone GPS navigation manufacturers Garmin and TomTom crashing.

If a new rumor published by DigiTimes is to be believed, companies are putting their money where their (shareholders') mouths are and moving resources away from the production of standalone personal navigation devices, or PNDs.

Research and development teams at manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron have been shifted to other devices in the face of "declining PND orders," according to the report.

Read the full story at ZDNet's The ToyBox.

Enter the mind-controlled cybernetic arm

European scientists have successfully built a brain-controlled bionic hand that could be used to kill or maim hundreds of humans in the coming robot versus humans' civil war. Or, far more admirably, allow amputees to feel hand sensations and manipulate their limb--via the brain--as if it were still there.

Pierpaolo Petruzziello--who lost his arm under the elbow in a car crash several years ago--has done just that, Italy's University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome announced Wednesday.
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Microsoft Bing Maps adds steet-level imagery

Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, announcing a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display 3D images and its own version of street-level images.

The company announced the new beta Wednesday amid a discussion of other improvements to Bing Thursday at its San Francisco offices in a presentation for the media. Bing Maps Beta is rolling out Thursday along with several other new features in the main Bing search results.
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Acer claims it'll be out first with Chrome OS Netbook

The world's second-largest PC maker has designs on being the first to offer a Chrome OS Netbook.

Acer chairman JT Wang said in an interview with Digitimes that he's "confident" his company will be first out of the gate with Google's open-source operating system preinstalled.

The earliest it would be available is mid-2010, according to Digitimes' unnamed sources.

Acer was just one of several hardware makers previously announced to be working with Google on implementing Chrome OS, along with Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and Toshiba. Dell, which hasn't committed to it fully yet, has released an experimental version of Chrome OS based on the source code that will work on the Dell Mini 10v Netbook, though it's not an official product.
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