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New iTV Remote

August 30, 2010 03:40 by: Mark Reschke   0 Comments

Categories: News , Products , Rumors

Dan Wineman over at Venomousporridge has an interesting take on what the forthcoming iTV remote may look and act like. The basic concept is a merge between iPod touch and Apple's magic track pad.

It's a cool concept that primarily focuses on gaming, yet it falls short in how controls may actually work at a granular level. To name but a few, how does one pause, fast-forward or rewind video content? Apple is high on gestures, but for a living room-based device, two-finger turn for rewind, four-finger spin for fast-foreard, and triple-tap for pause hardly sounds intuitive.

It's a cool looking mach-up, but perhaps the biggest indicator that this won't make the grade? It takes nearly a dozen paragraphs to explain how a "simple" remote control will work.

 

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