Bond is a smart home accessory meant to help you add some Internet of Things utility to older devices that don’t have internet access. How? By learning the signals from your various remotes and ...

IR blasters used to be a common component in smartphones, with flagship products from Samsung, OnePlus, and TCL giving users access to the cool feature. Phones equipped with IR blasters can be used as ...

I switch phones quite frequently. My current favorite is the OnePlus 13 because in addition to packing exceptional hardware, it also offers a decades-old feature: an IR blaster. I find this ...

I never thought I'd have a real use case for a smartphone IR blaster - that is, until the OnePlus 15 swooped in and saved my ...

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Despite its intention on transforming houses, the smart home boom came with one important caveat: To upgrade to the latest trend, people needed to buy entirely new gadgets. Thankfully, this ...

You'd be hard pressed to find a TV without some sort of extra box attached to it these days -- and with each box comes another remote. The sad part is it doesn't have to be this way, nope, the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You're trying to find the remote control, but it's nowhere to be seen. It could be down in the cushions, or maybe one of the kids made off ...

Sometimes you need a little utility device to do a very simple job, and do it well.This one-shot IR helper from [Gregory Sanders] is just that. [Gregory] had a TV that didn’t support automatically ...

An IR blaster for controlling TVs, stereos and the like has been a somewhat treasured feature of some Samsung flagships up until recently. Starting with the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3, fans could use ...

Because both the Samsung GALAXY S 4 and the HTC One work with infrared-blasting hardware and they've both been grabbed by Google in the past few weeks, the next version of Android will likely have ...

The OnePlus 12 is expected to make its debut in December, and now we’ve got an early reveal that has confirmed the display, as well as the return of a long-lost favorite feature, the IR blaster. In ...