Best Product of CES 2009: URC’s Magical iPod Server
With URC's PSX2, you can do unbelievable things with the iPod, like add songs to a playlist on the fly, or shuffle the kids' music at the press of a single button.
You’ve never seen a remote-controllable iPod solution like the PSX2 from Universal Remote Control (URC). It was previewed last week at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, but it debuts for real at the Electronic House Expo Spring, March 11-14, Orlando, Fla. (Full details will be revealed on February 1.)
The product lets you use any universal remote to navigate anywhere on an iPod with the press of a single button – even places on the iPod that you never knew existed.
“Favorites” menu? One button press is all it takes. All albums that start with the letter “J”? Just press a single button. Shuffle the “Kids’ Playlist” with one touch.
Normally, says URC VP of technology Eric Johnson, “You have to press the button a million times.”
To accomplish these PSX2 feats, URC created 250 discrete IR codes for virtually any iPod function imaginable – not just the functions that iPod gives you, but ones that you always (or never) dreamed of.
Then URC built a smart docking station that connects to the TV for on-screen navigation.
What makes the dock smart are the “hooks” (as Johnson calls them) that enable users to do the unthinkable: like add the current song to a playlist – on the fly. Try doing that with an iPod.
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