ControlThink have introduced  the ThinkRemote Community Edition which bring Vista SideShow gadgets to your iPhone and iPod Touch, Windows Mobile phones, PSP, PS3, DS, Wii, web browser and others  Sign up for an invitation to the beta...

Home & building automation supplier Ivory Egg is to launch Sensolux, the world’s first self-powered occupancy sensor, at ECO Build - the UK’s leading green building event...

Watch the video after the jump as Danny from MavroMatic reviews the Linksys DMA 2100 Media Center Extender...

Helvar will release the new 458 Dimmer later this quarter.  The eight channel inductive dimmer, complete with LCD display and cursor control, comes in a compact, pre-wired, wall-mountable unit for maximum convenience and versatility....

The "Current State" concept from The Greener Grass is an idea for monitoring and controlling power usage round the home - "Current State is a real-time energy use monitoring system and timer for powered devices combined into one. The Current State system is made up of two parts, a mobile application for you cell phone, which allows you to control and monitor electricity use from anywhere, and a series of Plug-Ends that give you control over the products around your house...

This morning Danfoss launched their new Z-Wave radiator thermostat.  The RA Plus-w gives wireless control of your home heating system by replacing your existing radiator thermostats with this motorises unit.  Once installed, home heating can be controlled from a huge range Z-wave transmitter, including via PC interface, mobile phone and the Web...

Amongst the Touch Panels and Waterproof remotes launched at ISE recently, were two new releases from RTI. - "XP-8 Controller. The XP8 is a new Control Processor with more power and I/O ports than any previous RTI Controller. Fast MPU, real time/multitasking operating system and expandability makes the XP-8 the perfect solution for large scale and complex projects. RTI are now firmly in the business of providing remote control solutions for commercial projects...

Keene Electronics have added a new  affordable (£46) 4 port HDMI switcher with IR Remote Control - "from ATEN, the VS481 is a high quality yet amazingly low cost 4 port HDMI Switchbox that allows you to quickly and easily share your HDMI display device with 4 HDMI input sources. Ideal for DVD players, Satellite receivers, DV camcorders etc. Input selection is via a remote control unit or front panel pushbuttons...

One of our readers spotted this Belgian Home Automation system and dropped us an email.  The system seems to be based on CAN Bus and prices look very reasonable... 

Home automators love personal video recorders. A lot of us employ several of them around the home and use IP to stream recordings for different users to different rooms.  Already office apps (like Google Docs) are moving on-line so I suppose it shouldn't come as any great surprise that now the PVR is moving up to the cloud as well.  TVCatchUp is a free service recording from the UKs FreeView channels and storing them online so you can stream them to any PC with web access...