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Seven months ago, Motorola unveiled a dual-sided, QWERTY-laden TV remote control: the NYXboard. It was never heard from again. Today, we’ve learned why — the open-source community will be selling a version specially redesigned to control your XBMC rig. The folks at Pulse-Eight — a startup with roots in the XBMC community dedicated to designing hardware — tell us they actually talked Motorola out of bundling the remote with set-top-boxes in favor of a nefarious plan. Simply put, they want you to be able to purchase an IR and RF remote that natively supports XBMC for a penny under $60 this June.

While we don’t have any real pictures of the unit quite yet — just the renders you see above and below — developers say it will work with installations on Mac, Windows, Linux and the original Apple TV on day one, and will actually turn off the side of the remote that’s face down to avoid accidental inputs. You’ll find the NYXboard up for pre-order now at our source link, with the first shipments slated for around June 27th. Then again, you might want to wait, as we’re told there are more surprises in store: a second version that can control the Apple TV 2, and a secret method which would allow the remotes to control your home entertainment center without pesky line-of-sight infrared. The best laid plans and all that… but it sounds like Logitech’s Harmony may finally get some competition.

Update: The situation’s a bit tricky, but the XBMC Foundation (a non-profit entity) wants you to know that hardware vendor Pulse-Eight (a for-profit venture) isn’t actually part of their group — Pulse-Eight was founded by an XBMC team member and produces hardware targeted at the XBMC community, but apparently isn’t funded by (nor directs funding towards) the XBMC foundation itself.

Motorola NYXboard surfaces from the dead, XBMC reclaims it (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intriguing cloud-based copy-and-paste tool out of MIT could find home in smartphones of the future, making information sharing between devices that much easier.

Looks like President Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just can’t get enough of each other. Just two months after his tech industry schmooze fest, the White House has announced the Commander in Chief’s plans to hold a live streaming Town Hall meeting from Facebook HQ with Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The event is set for 1:45PM PST April 20th, and already has 3,400 attendees lined up. Users are encouraged to submit their questions about innovation and the economy via the event’s Facebook page, and the comments are already rolling in. Somehow, though, we don’t think this is the sort question he’s likely to answer: “Dear President Obama, could we please be friends?” Sorry, Carolina.

President Obama to appear at Facebook HQ for Town Hall meeting originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 11, 2006 by CyberNet.

If you have some money sitting around then maybe you should put a bid in on the iTablet — A Mac Tablet! All the news articles are unsure of how true this item really is but we’ll never find out unless someone steps up to give it a shot. The iTablet that you would receive from the auction has not been built yet but for each one that sells they will build it for you. It is a limited edition also because they only have plans on manufacturing 100 of these babies. Every time that Apple releases a new iBook then they will sell another 100 of these. Sounds interesting and would be cool if there was some truth to the auction. We will have to watch for eBay feedback from the winner (assuming that the winner isn’t the creator, which we might also never know)!

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