It’s not that I hate IR blasters, but most of the time they’re ridiculously annoying. I’m somewhat of an iHome fan, but I swear I’ve never been more frustrated with a remote than with the one for their now outdated mid-2000 iHr5 model. The unit itself is very nice, but that remote? My god, if the stars didn’t align you could not change the volume with that thing. When IR blasters go giant (like on television remotes), they’re usually okay because I stand in the kitchen and change the channel, aiming it at the ceiling if I want.
So of course Unity seems pretty bad ass right? It sits presumably on your coffee table, firing off a plasma cannon of infrared rays in hopes of triggering some benign sensor in your home theater equipment. And the best part is that it connects to your iPhone over WiFi so you can control all of your devices with a single touchscreen interface. If you’ve an iPhone this seems like a great idea, but I don’t know how many of you would settle for the $99 Unity over a good Logitech Harmony.
