Interlink's VP6600: Remote Control
You don't have to leave the comfort of your luxury Barletta sofa to access your media, with this nifty remote control from Interlink. Stream music, view DVDs, or peruse your photo album from up to 10 meters away. When you're finished with this bluetooth gadget, it re-charges in your ExpressCard slot.
Them were thedays when you actually had to get your rump roast off the couchand turn the dial on the actual television to switch the channelyou were watching. Then came the remote control, and the rumproasts have been getting wider ever since. Next came the laptop,though, and professionals, students, housewives, andentrepreneurs all had reasons to get back off the couch, getvibrant, and get busy with their mobile computers - burning offthe pounds as they bore the laptop on their shoulder in asatchel.
But thencame Interlink Electronics with its laptop remote control. The"leading innovator of intuitive interface design" out ofCamarillo, California, has devised this contraption that canallow you to play your music MP3s, DVDs, run a photo slideshow,or operate a PowerPoint all from as far as 30 feet away. All youneed is a Windows XP OS. Then it'll do the rest, operating withmost media apps, from Windows Media Center to iTunes, RealPlayerto Dell Media Experience.
Interlink's VP6600 connects to your laptop viaBluetooth-it won't work without it-and can park overnight in theExpressCard slot for recharging and safekeeping. The charge canlast typically up to a week, and only takes less than two hoursto replenish.
All this in a package that weighs about an ounce and costs $49.95.Just when people started getting some exercise carrying theirlaptops from coffee shop to café, Interlink Electronicscomes out with a laptop remote control (ExpressCard VP6600) thatwill send the people back to their couches. Gone will be thespandex from my gym, replaced with baggy sweatpants. No morebikinis at the beach-at least none that I want to see.
You're not making any sense, you tell me? I'm going off the deepend? Eh.....I'd have to agree with you. This laptop remote control is prettydarn cool. And you do have to get up off the couch to plug itinto the ExpressCard slot to recharge.
