A Korean company called
Avago Technologies has just announced a new control unit for remotes, video games, phones, and media players called the AMRS-2325. The small, touch-sensitive pad is a multi-faceted input device with a catchy name, which allows control to vacillate between an iPod-like scroll-wheel, a game joystick, or a four-way navigational pad. The company also produces an electronic controller for the pads, called the AMRI-1000, which is an IC chip used to switch functionality between the various modes. Together, the two technologies make for a supposedly low-power solution which Avago, judging from their artist renderings, seems to think would be equally suited to an Xbox 360 controller,
Logitech remote, or
Zune /
iPhone hybrid -- an idea which should scare the living daylights out of
Apple and
Microsoft fanatics alike.
[Via
Remote Shoppe]
