You’ve heard about it for months, as well as now the concept remote that looks nothing similar to a concept remote is eventually on sale in 52 nations. Thinkflood’s RedEye Mini — which simply plugs into a headphone jack of your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch — can now be procured for $49, as well as when used with a free of charge app in the App Store, can control anything in your home entertainment setup which accepts IR commands. ZDNet was fortunate sufficient to get a small hands-on time with a device, and their early impressions have been utterly positive. In actuality, they recommend skipping a Harmony hoopla as well as streamer right for this if you’re already an iDevice owner (who doesn’t make use of an imposing case or Bumper), as well as during a sire underneath a Grant, we positively aren’t in the place to disagree. Thinkflood RedEye Mini

Show full PR textAvailable Now: ThinkFlood RedEye mini, Portable Universal Remote for iPhone, iPad as well as iPod touch

New RedEye mini as well as ThinkFlood’s Original RedEye Remote upon Sale in 52 Countries

WALTHAM, MA–(Marketwire – July 20, 2010) – ThinkFlood (http://thinkflood.com/), maker of RedEye remotes for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, currently voiced accessibility of RedEye mini, a world’s most affordable and feature-rich moveable universal remote adapter for Apple iOS inclination.

RedEye mini, the second product in ThinkFlood’s RedEye remote line, plugs into a headphone jack of a iPhone, iPod hold as well as iPad — transforming it into a utterly portable concept remote. RedEye mini hardware requires the RedEye app, a giveaway download from a App Store.

RedEye mini owners can simply operate anything controlled by infrared signals anywhere they go: TVs; wire as well as heavenly body receivers; gaming consoles; Blu-ray, DVD as well as digital media players; as well as some-more.

“RedEye mini works so seamlessly as well as seems so simple in judgment which it’s easy to overlook a amount of engineering that went into it,” pronounced ThinkFlood President and Founder Matt Eagar. “Ultimately, it’s which surface simplicity that creates it smashing — only drop a mini into your headphone jack as well as right away you have a powerful, customizable remote which goes over systems costing several times as much. It’s also a lot of fun.”

More about RedEye mini

* Available right away in 52 countries (US MSRP $49)
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch as well as iPad
* Download IR codes anywhere regulating the 3G connection or Wi-Fi
* Activity-based control as well as macros (common in modernized home theater remotes)
* Smaller than the thumb drive; comes with carrying box
* Database of 45,000+ IR codes; ability to learn commands from existing remotes
* Free in-app TV program/channel beam (coming later this summer for a US as well as Canada)
* Customizable touchscreen buttons, Multi-Touch as well as motion gesture shortcuts
* Leaves iOS device’s wharf connector open for charging

About ThinkFlood
ThinkFlood (http://thinkflood.com/) designs and develops remote carryout hardware and program. Its RedEye line of networked concept remote carryout products for mobile phones, MP3 players and tablets offers facilities as well as functionality formerly accessible usually in remotes costing several times as much. ThinkFlood is the secretly hold association headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Software for RedEye mini (the RedEye application)
RedEye is most some-more than the elementary infrared adapter for your phone, and program plays the key purpose. At ThinkFlood we rise our program in-house as well as essay to yield regular updates as well as improvements. Here have been some of the things that we feel set the program detached from a throng:

• Activity-based approach

We hold your home drama should be organized around what you do, not what hardware manufacturers produce. One hold to play the movie, hold again to watch TV – no some-more trying to recollect that audio as well as video inputs you need.

• Smart actions

Many other remotes have “macro” capacity (the option to have a single button send two or more signals). RedEye goes over macros with intelligent actions which essentially keep lane of things similar to either a device is upon or off. Smart actions have been quite useful when switching activities – when you transition from watching TV to personification the DVD, RedEye is intelligent enough to leave the TV upon.

• Customizable symbol layouts

RedEye gives you a singular symbol layout for any wakeup you emanate, so the “remote” you use when listening to song is dissimilar from the one you use when examination TV. You can customize everything from symbol chain to distance. We even have hundreds of channel logos built right into a application.

• Activity templates

Customizable symbol layouts for any activity have been good, but formulating them from blemish can be a lot of work. When you create the new activity, RedEye starts you off with the well-designed template. And by template we don’t mean the singular, customary set of buttons. Instead, RedEye uses information similar to a wakeup sort (Watch TV or Listen to Music?) and a devices you include in a wakeup (do you route your tune by an A/V receiver or your TV speakers?) to establish what buttons to embody as well as how they should duty.

• Macro and toggle buttons

In addition to a common daub or tap-and-hold functionality you expect, it is easy to have RedEye wakeup buttons perform some-more modernized functions. Macro buttons can send out multiple commands – for e.g., the intelligent tongue-tied symbol that turns upon sealed captioning when branch off a volume. Toggle buttons can switch between different functions any time you press them, similar to a classical play/pause symbol upon a CD or MP3 player.

• Shortcut gestures

Touchscreens are good since they yield a idealization coherence – law layouts for each activity being a single example. However, they can make it harder to daub a right symbol when you are channel surfing or differently need to be seeking elsewhere. RedEye uses the full functionality of a iPhone – multitouch and a accelerometer – to overcome this reduction. Choose from any of five suit gestures as well as eighteen multi-touch gestures for any button in your wakeup layout.

• Customizable delays

When executing the array of actions – for example during a launch of an wakeup – it is critical to be means to fine-tune a check in between commands. RedEye allows you to insert delays of up to 20 seconds in 0.05 second increments.

• Quick launch

You wish to be able to pick up your remote carryout and make use of it right divided. If your remote is an app upon your phone, afterwards it has to launch quick as well as put you in a driver’s chair right divided. RedEye is optimized to launch quickly and to move you right to the activity in swell. And now if you are using iOS 4 on a device which supports multi-tasking it’s even faster than before.

• Online infrared code database

Sure, RedEye can sense commands from your existent remote controls, though who wants to do that? Our software is backed by an online database of some-more than 45,000 infrared codes covering over 1,200 device manufacturers, so there’s a good possibility you have what you need. And since the database is stored upon a web server rather than than upon your phone or a RedEye hardware, you get updates to a database as soon as they have been accessible – no need to wait for for a subsequent software release.

• Integrated channel guide (coming soon)

Version 1.3.0 of the RedEye software will include an radio channel beam covering wire, heavenly body, as well as over-the-air broadcasts in a United States as well as Canada. With a channel beam you no longer need to take up the space upon your categorical screen whilst you confirm what to watch subsequent. It is additionally easy to filter the list formed on your the one preferred channels so which you don’t have to corkscrew by dozens of screens only to find what you want.

• Toolbar stealing

The iPhone shade is flattering large, but sometimes you want to get everything out of a approach as well as concentration upon your remote carryout. RedEye gives you the few dissimilar options to remove confusion as well as take control.

• Disabling a sleep timer

The iPhone’s built in sleep-timer helps you conserve battery, as well as so you wish to leave it upon in many cases. However, when you are sitting down inside of arm’s stretch of the charging cradle, you competence prefer to keep the phone watchful. A simple environment in a RedEye app allows you to invalidate a nap timer while a application is running without disabling it for all applications.

• Multitasking

Beginning with version 1.2.0, RedEye entirely supports iOS 4 multitasking, that means which you can get behind to determining your activities even faster than prior to.

• Retina arrangement support

RedEye now provides high fortitude button images so that everything looks crisp as well as clear upon your new iPhone 4.