As useful as remote controls for TVs and streaming devices continue to be, they do still have one major drawback: their tendency to be physically misplaced. Fortunately, technology has progressed a ...

Compared to the olden days of television, where you could use just about any $5 remote control from Circuit City with your set, the remotes that come with smart devices like an Amazon Fire TV are a ...

Mike is a freelance writer for Android Police. He has been blogging since high school and has honed expertise in writing tutorials, guides and how-tos for Android and Chrome. All recent Android TVs ...

Business owners who use Sharp Aquos televisions when giving presentations can program the remote control supplied with the television to work with the peripheral devices connected to the TV, such as a ...

Reset your Roku by unplugging it, then plugging it back in after a few minutes. This should make the Roku automatically reconnect to the mobile hotspot — tricking it to thinking it's using the old ...

What is an IR Blaster and How Does it Work? An IR blaster is a hardware component in some smartphones that allows the device to emulate an infrared remote control, enabling it to control various ...

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PS5 Remote Play lets you play your PS5 games and apps on a computer, phone, tablet, or another console. Your PS5 will need a fast internet connection — preferably over Ethernet — to use Remote Play.

An Apple TV remote or an iPhone could be used to control multiple devices in a room, with the user selecting what hardware to control by gesturing their hand-held controller in the general direction ...

Is your laptop’s trackpad or keyboard broken, and do you need to use it urgently? Or, do you want to give a presentation from your laptop but don’t have a controller? Well, Remote Mouse is the ...

With PlayStation Remote Play, you can stream your PS5 or PS4 games from your console to your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. That means you can pause your game on your TV and open the PS Remote ...

Most Android TV devices come with a voice-enabled remote to easily search for content using Google Assistant. However, there are many times when you might not want to use a remote, and you would find ...