what with ppl with no blogs? (Score 1)

I've always dreamt of a remote control for everything. By pointing the remote to an appliance you see the different controls on a screen and can influence the appliance. So if you point to a light switch you either see an on/off option, either a dimmer. But pointing it to your music installation it shows you different commands for the cd player, alarm, ... pointing it to the heathing allows to control the heathing, and so on. This must be quite easy to implement, with some kind of laser telling when the controller needs to "beam out" it's possibilities and the receptor remote having some presets (so a lightswitch with a dimmer can send a code and the controller doesn't need to recieve the different options). The remote can also recieve whole new command sets; so it can adapt to new equipment (any brand can add this communication protocol and be reachable by the remote)