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.

[Cyberwhore @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Why would us Mac users want this when we've got Salling Clicker and Bluetooth?

[Simon @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Bluetooth HID is as standard on SonyEricsson phones, All you need is a bluetooth dongle on the PC :)

[Jurgen @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

... no infrared elsewhere ...? My guess would be: Infrared everywhere but that little corner of the world called US of A.

[delvach @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Cyberwhore beat me to it.

[Andrei @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

and there's also the puppet master program which does pretty much the same via bluetooth. i just love that one.

[dc @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

I live in the US...and all of my Nokia phones have had infrared.

[djTA630 @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

Hrm - I wonder... this product + Apple's Universal Remote + Front Row.... >?<

[Fette Brown @ Dec 19th 2005 2:28AM]

I am a newcomer to the Engadget's information. Am I to understand that these Engadgets are any electronics that can communicate with each other and/or each stands alone in a whole new world of technology.

Confused,
Fett'e Brown