When a number of trainees from the university of Toronto ended up being tired of having several remotes lying around, they decided to do something about it. Their solution to this issue came in the type of UIRemote, a universal remote application for the iPhone. The application enables the iphone to manage anything that is normally managed by an infrared remote, thanks to the utilize of a custom infrared adapter that plugs into the phone’s headphone port. It’s a method similar to our iPod remote manage from 2004. While the UIRemote application as well as adapter are still in beta, the trainees expect to release both things simultaneously sometime within the next two months.
[via Engadget]