In a little bit of cool home-grown tech down at CES, iSkin, a Toronto-based company that makes iPhone accessories, demoed an iPhone case that has an infrared receiver at the top. Working in tandem with an iPhone app, the phone can become a universal remote like Logitech’s popular Harmony line of remotes.
Now, I thought this was super cool, and it was great to see it work seamlessly with a MacBook laptop. But apparently, there will be support for everything from TVs, cable and satellite boxes, Blu-ray players, netbooks, and other devices that could be supported. Given that this was a prototype, there was no list of devices on the app, and there’s no word on how many TVs from a given manufacturer might be supported, but the way it looks and how it works seemed really interesting to me.