In this day and age of the Internet of Things and controlling appliances over the internet, the idea of using an old-fashioned television remote to do anything feels distinctly 2005. That doesn’t mean ...

Do you have one of those universal remotes laying around that you can't use with all your equipment? Over on the hacking blog Handya, Andy shows off how to hack a light switch so you can control it ...

We have a decorator lamp in our TV room. It's a hand-painted figurine of a 16th-century acrobat. It is colorful and rests atop a tall floor speaker in a corner between the entertainment center and the ...