Interlink Electronics unveils Bluetooth ExpressCard Media Remote

If your fresh new laptop has an ExpressCard slot that's not already preoccupied with a TV tuner, external SATA adapter, or EV-DO card, you might be interested in a little something that maximizes your ability to become the ultimate couch potato. Interlink Electronics has released its Bluetooth-enabled Media Remote that just so happens to fit snuggly inside your machine's ExpressCard slot for storage and recharging. The device works with pretty much every media suite out there, including Windows Media Center, Dell Media Experience, Windows Media Player, iTunes, RealPlayer and presumably anything else with track / volume controls. Sporting a 30 foot range, a full week of battery life, and weighing only 1.1 ounces, this $49.95 media controller should make good use of that open ExpressCard slot -- unless, of course, it's reserved for more critical tasks.

[Via MobileWhack]

[Raider @ Sep 8th 2006 2:11AM]

That looks like the HP's notebook remote on one of their commercials.

[Fara @ Sep 8th 2006 2:48AM]

it also looks like the ones that come with fujitsu siemens laptops

[James @ Sep 8th 2006 3:39AM]

Does anybody know if there's one of these for standard PCMCIA slot? looks like a really useful tool. I have an IR port on the front of my laptop, and have always wondered if i could get a remote control (something along the windows media centre style) to work from it. A bluetooth controller would be equally as good!

[Paul @ Sep 8th 2006 7:40AM]

It is remarkably like the HP remote i've got in my laptop. The HP 1 is IR though.

[Asad @ Sep 8th 2006 11:41AM]

Pardon my ignorance, but would this fit in the slot on my macbook pro? Because it looks as if only part of the card would go in the slot. I'd like a remote that hides away comepletely in that slot, that offers more functionality than the frontrow remote.

[Maurice @ Sep 8th 2006 12:11PM]

That's the first thing I thought when I saw the MacBook Pro came with a remote and without a PC Card slot. This one looks like ExpressCard/54 though...

[asurroca @ Sep 8th 2006 12:44PM]

Call me crazy, but the right half of the control in that picture has a gray square and a gray circle watermark and it makes it look like an iPod. Quick, Apple lawers, to the lawyer-mobile, you've got another case!

Oh, and I'm not paying $50 for a Bluetooth version of the remote I've got in my laptop, either. I'll stick with IR.

[Captain Lumpy Dog @ Sep 8th 2006 1:22PM]

I love my MacBook Pro so much that I may never marry, but I FARKING HATE its ExpressCard 34 slot. WHY NO 54? WHY?

Sorry for all the screaming, but I'm just really sore about it. Grrrrrr.

Captain Lumpy Dog, Away!!!

[Jordan Cypert @ Sep 8th 2006 1:31PM]

According to this press release, AverMedia was planning an ATSC Expresscard/34 for last year. What gives?

http://tinyurl.com/hnzkd

[Don O'Shea @ Sep 8th 2006 2:34PM]

All I want is an Expresscard adapter for SD cards! Surely there's enough pent up demand to make a decent profit on it!

[Rob @ Sep 8th 2006 4:18PM]

@James
With some software you can configure a good old fashion TV remote to work with your IR port. I honestly forget the names, I think one was ICE and another was like PCRemote. Takes some playing with, works better with some TV remotes than with others.

[Danny Lewis @ Sep 8th 2006 4:24PM]

Aww man... this thing also recharges via the card slot! They really need to make a version that fits a standard PCMCIA slot! I would buy one in an instant for my PowerBook! (I'd buy it if I knew it would work on a Mac, that is)

[FRiC @ Sep 8th 2006 9:56PM]

SIIG makes an 11-1 card reader for the ExpressCard/34 format.