Matchpoint technology can turn objects into remote controls for your TV screen. Can't find your TV remote again? Scientists have developed a technology that can turn everyday objects - such as teacups ...

Lancaster researchers hope to banish problem of losing the remote control down the side of the sofa, and enable easier control of tutorial videos A webcam-based technology promises to enable device ...

Scientists have developed a technology that can turn everyday objects — such as teacups or toy cars — into remote controls for televisions. Researchers from Lancaster University in the U.K. said the ...

A way of turning any object into a remote control has been developed. The Matchpoint system, developed by Lancaster University, only needs a webcam and a chosen object. Once synchronised, the user can ...

Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless television remote control, once said that “the flush toilet may have been the most civilized invention ever devised, but the remote control is the ...