A new kind of remote control scraps the buttons in favor of motion-sensitive navigation
By Michael Myser
Posted 02.13.2007 at 3:00 am

Control Freak: The Loop lets you change channels and settings with a wave and a click. Hillcrest Labs
Three hundred channels and a DVR full of recorded shows, and you´re still sifting through it all with a controller straight out of the ´80s. That´s why Hillcrest Labs designed the Loop, a remote with nary a number on it. Instead, a button brings up an onscreen guide, which you navigate with a scroll wheel. To select what you want to do-browse recordings, change settings-just wave the remote around to move an onscreen cursor through a series of intuitive, icon-driven menus.
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