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We love a good hardware hack and here's a great one from Automated Home reader Martin Howell.  A Velleman IR kit plus a makeup mirror and some Arduino jiggery-pokery allows Martin's home to let him know when there's something in his mail box on the gatepost...

Slingbox inventor, Blake Krikorian and Crestron today announced the release of the R2 Control App for Crestron, a software app that turns virtually any Android smart phone or tablet into a fully-functional Crestron touch panel for residential and commercial applications. Utilising the R2 app and Crestron processors, customers can now control AV, lighting, thermostats, security systems, and thousands of other products via their Android device from anywhere in the world.  Check out all the details and the video after the jump...

It's more than four years since we found the first Linutop PC.  Now in it's fourth generation the new Linutop 4 is more powerful, smaller and even more energy efficient.  The miniature, silent fanless PC is now powered by a 1.6 GHz Intel ATOM and uses solid state flash memory instead of a spindle.  The result is great performance and yet less than 14 Watts in use...

Here's the news a lot of geeks have been waiting for.  Plex have just released a Linux version of their Plex Media Server software (PMS) .  The initial version is the first product to come from the newly launched 'Plex Labs' and means that servers are now available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux.  Perhaps best of all, the new Linux release supports some network attached storage devices.  A Plex setup could now be as simple as one of the new LG HD TVs with Plex 'Media Link' built in plus a NAS...