Colin Calder, CEO of PassivSystems has this morning announced their new Home Heating systems control iPhone app.  In conjunction with the PassivEnergy home energy management system the app allows full control of your heating from your iPhone including the ability to remotely check temperatures and override schedules.  Aimed at energy saving as well as convenience the app is free and available now from the iTunes store.  Read on for the full PR...

With the UK Government still making noises about turning FM radio off by 2015 this tiny little fella may become a boon to many.  The View Quest's scroll wheel allows you to navigate over 12,000 radio station from around the world, in addition to over 7,000 podcasts.  Other highlights include a 1.8" LCD display with white LED light and a 15 hour Li-Ion Polymer battery.  The diminutive WIFI200 is just 72.9 x 125.1 x 23.1mm and weighs 160g  and is available now for under £80...

The new ZigBee Plugwise Smart Sockets go between your appliance and the wall, measuring energy consumption and transmitting the data to your PC wirelessly for analysis.  The PlugWise Circle G sockets are available now for around £35 with the PlugWise Stick USB mesh network transmitter / receiver for around £40... 

Here's a coupe of Sonos updates roled into one.  First a video from CEPro showing a sneak peek of the up-coming Sonos iPad app in action. 

The second video is from Danny over at Mavromatic showing off his latest project - an Adruino powered interface that allows a Sonos system to be controlled from Russound whole house audio system keypads...

The guys over at LinITX.com have introduced a new Mini-ITX NAS/Server Case with 4 Hot Swap 3.5" SATA drive bays.  The bare chassis is around £100 and is ideal for a home server/nas with a potentially huge capacity for all your media. There's an internal 2.5" drive bay too for your OS and LinITX have a recommended dual core Atom board to go along with the case to provide great performance and low power consumption..

Julie Jacobson has an exclusive over at CEPro on a new Creston remote due to launch in 2011.  The aptly named 'UFO-4X' is a disc shaped craft and its touchcreen can serve as a trackpad as well as a virtual keyboard.  It attaches to its base by magnets so can be wall mounted and it supports Adobe Flash for high quality UI design...

iPort are releasing two new in-wall mounts this month for the iPod Touch and the iPad.  The CM100 and CM2000 use wall mounted chassis and a magnetically attached front surround and turn the Apple devices into touch screen for smart home control...  

The new ProGuard800 system from Marmitek combines X10 Home Automation and Security features in a single Panel.  PSTN, GSM modules are also available along with the usual assortment of door/window sensors, motion sensors, water leak detectors, temperature sensors, smoke detectors etc.  The ProGuard800 is available now for under £400...

In an age where more and more new devices want access to the Interweb, even on the move, it's crazy to have a separate connection for each.  In an ideal world we'd all be using our mobiles phones as a Wi-Fi hotspots, but generally these data plans are crazy expensive for what you get (often even without any extra data allowance).  Often its the poor battery performance of the mobile phone in this scenario that renders it impractical.  So what's the answer? a MiFi...