Re:old news? (Score 1)

One could argue that some sort of unviersal remote control would be more smaller, cheaper, etc, and nearly effective. The advantage of the Canadian device is that it is something to be incorporated into the appliance without requiring any extra hardware on the user's end, while MIT's requires the user to be wearing the Eye aRe. Given that it's a technology which is supposed to allow greater integration of other technology into our lives through promoting a somewhat more passive control scheme, the requirement to wear a pair of funny looking glasses to get my TV to work is not all that attractive. Imagine you've brought a date back to your place and you want to impress her with your ability to turn on your stuff by looking at it: which would you rather have?