At 544,000 candela, each Golight GT Series Remote Controlled Searchlight lamp is 33 percent more powerful than before and 55 percent more intense.

Color-changing remote control light bulbs are a great way to match lighting to your music and movies and even improve mood and productivity.

Cut slots into a piece of paper to represent the IR remote control bitstream for putting your TV into standby. Insert it between your TV’s IR receiver and the flame from a lighter, and pull t… ...

Remote-control light waves resembling those used in a TV remote combine with gold nanorods to flip the switch.

TV remotes still use infrared because it’s cheap, universal, and reliable. Remotes often use IR for basic functions and ...

This chip stores a few thousand bits, several of which are tied to the remote control. After dumping the contents of the EEPROM from the entire four-pack of light sockets, [Todd] noticed only one ...

This light switch, imaginatively named the Light Switch, would be a great boon to dwellers of old apartments if it wasn’t so damned expensive. The chrome plated switch sits in a lucite box and ...

Most standard remote controls send signals to your home theater gear using a beam of infrared light, which a sensor on your hardware picks up. You can’t see this beam, but your smartphone’s ...