iPhone 4 Case With Built-In Infared Unit – Want To Know Why You Need This?
Electronista have a great story on their site today. It’s relating to a company called Mashed Pixel who have started shipping a new case for the iPhone 4 called the SURC. It features a built-in infared unit that you can pair with a free app that’s available from the same company and it literaly turns your iPhone 4 into an easy to use universal learning remote control. It doesn’t just control most infrared enabled applicances and devices but it also learns how to control the devices from the user’s existing remotes. Wow, this is something else, read more below…
The case also features a tiny battery built in it and a micro-USB connection for recharging that also lets users charge and sync their iPhone without removing the case. The SURC app is customizable, allowing users to program gestures or use the iPhone’s motion-sensing capabilities to be assigned to specific buttons (such as waving the iPhone upwards to indicate raising the volume.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
