iMac remote control
October 12th, 2005
Fig. 1: Front Row. Boop-bip!
How does the new iMac’s remote control thingy work? I’d have guessed BlueTooth, but it has a slab of shiny black plastic on one end, which screams IR. Where’s the IR transceiver on the iMac base unit? (Did Apple somehow use the iSight, now built in to the iMac’s bezel, to detect IR pulses?) And how soon before Front Row becomes the Apple TiVo? (With the ability to buy TV shows from the iTunes Music Store, it arguably already is.)