YOUR Sky TV remote probably has a few tricks you didn’t know about. We reveal some of the hidden meanings behind lesser-used Sky buttons. There are two types: one with buttons on the circle, and one ...

Sometimes, the best hifi gear is the gear you’ve already got. This is particularly the case in the cassette world, as high quality decks are long out of production. [Nick] liked his current rig, but ...

If you own a smart TV, then you probably have streamer buttons on your remote control. This handy feature allows you to easily jump from an app like Netflix to Disney+, without having to escape back ...

Even before the addition of touchpads, remote controls were pushing the boundaries in terms of size as more and more features were crammed into home entertainment devices and more and more buttons ...

I have never liked the slippery Siri Remote that Apple shipped with the fourth-generation Apple TV HD in 2015 and continues to offer as the default option for the Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K. But only ...

Remote controls may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new system by Israeli gesture start-up eyeSight. The onecue control center lets users communicate with just about any connected device in ...

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Canadian smart lighting company Nanoleaf does everything a little differently. Its LED Light Panels (which made my favorite tech of 2017 list) are flat, interlocking and made to be mounted on a wall.