lipii Beam Station turns mobile phone into mouse
If you're reading Engadget, you probaby have a mobile phone. You probably also have a computer.
...see any connection? Quixun did. For 1,980 yen (about $16), you can pick up their "lipii Beam Station," a small USB device that accepts infrared signals from your mobile phone. Using a special iAppli on the phone, which is currently supported by pretty much all FOMA handsets, you're able to control various functions of your PC by using only the phone's keypad. Move the mouse, type up a term paper, skip to the next porn music video, control your browser, and so on. Mac and Linux users are out of luck; only Windows is supported for now. Oh well, infrared isn't exactly a common feature for phones outside of Japan anyway.
