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Korean company Utas offers Caviar ITRC 7000 - intelligent digital home controller with 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen, which will replace all remotes in your home and even more. This based on Windows CE controller lets you control just about any IR-based device in your house, either straight out of the box or by programming it using the existing remote. Additionally, it can be programmed via USB port.
The Caviar ITRC 7000 also allows to create macros to reduce daily button mashing routine and contains a calendar, calculator and clock. The controller looks nice but it doesn’t include possibility to use RF, which is much better than IR.
The price of Caviar ITRC 7000 is tagged at $420 in Korea.

[via Engadget]

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Nobu introduced N8 touchscreen in-wall PC. It’s features an 8-inch touchscreen, a 600MHz Intel Celeron M or 1.1GHz Pentium M CPU, 512MB of DDR RAM, 802.11a/b/g, Ethernet, a 4GB SSD and three USB 2.0 ports. Nobu N8 also sports built-in speakers / mic, audio out, VGA out and comes loaded with Windows XP Professional.

It’d be nice to use Nobu N8 as control panel in the home automation system (Plutohome, for example) if the price tag was not so expensive - $3,625. IMHO, it’s too much. Especially, when it’s possible to buy some UMPC (Samsung Q1 or TabletKiosk) for about $1000 and install it on the wall.

[via Engadget]

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Crestron showed on CEDIA Expo 2006 its new WiFi Touchpanel - TPMC-8X. The TPMC-8X is based on Windows XP Embedded operating system and closely integrated with Yahoo Widgets. It allows to get stock prices, weather or any other information accessible via a finger click. The device is packed with Bluetooth and WiFi. So, you won’t have any problem with connections. There is a built-in fingerprint scanner and together with included biometric softwar allow to restore preferences for each family member easily.Built-in stereo speakers, dual microphones and VoIP software provide a simple way to make phone calls via Internet.
But the main goal to get the TPMC-8X is a control your home using Crestron’s hardware and software for home automation. With TPMC-8X you’ll able to control lighting, climate, A/V etc.

The TPMC-8X will be available at the price $3800.

[via Engadget]

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Insent released a MCE-based media center - Julia All-in-One Touch Extender. The media center uses improved touchscreen functionality. It allows to control media via touchscreen without keyboard or mouse.

The unit is packed by a 17-inch widescreen display, along with a CD/DVD drive, TV and FM tuners, 80GB hard drive, and Ethernet and WiFi capabilities. Neither are price nor availability.

[via Engadget]

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The new Philips Prestigo (SRU9600) remote control blends control, comfort and convenience together. It has built-in LCD touchscreen which displays the buttons you need to operate the currently selected device only. Simple and general commands, such as volume and channel up/down, can also be activated by hard keys on the unit as well.

The remote can control up to 8 different devices from 20 categories. The set-up wizard and the remote’s learning capabilities (to learn IR codes from other remote just point to it!) make process of configuration easy and intuitive.

The SRU9600 is available at all leading electronic stores and retailing at $239.

[via eHomeUpgrade and HardwareZone]

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