Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Logitech introduced the Logitech Harmony 1100 advanced universal remote control, a customizable, 3.5-inch full-colour touch screen. Logitech’s newest remote provides a touch-screen interface that lets you put the commands you want, where you want them.
The Harmony 1100 remote also received the CES 2009 Design and Engineering Award: Best of Innovations in the Home-Entertainment Accessories category. This is the second consecutive year a Logitech Harmony remote has been honoured with this award.
“The Harmony 1100 is a natural extension of the Harmony promise – to simplify today’s complex home-entertainment systems,” said Ashish Arora, vice president and general manager of Logitech’s Harmony business unit. “As more and more people get the bulk of their entertainment at home, the Harmony 1100 will help people get more out of their home-entertainment experience – for a fraction of the price of traditional custom-installed remotes.”
The Harmony 1100 remote has fully redesigned software from the previous version. The 3.5-inch touch-sensitive screen which features QVGA resolution and using the new Harmony software, you can select the commands you use most and put those features on the screen.
So if you like to watch movies, for example, and are always using the Play and Pause buttons, you can tell the Harmony 1100 to make those commands immediately available on the screen once you start your movie.
A programming based procedure uses a database of over 225,000 devices from more that 5000 manufacturers, allowing the remote to be set up using a home computer.
The unit comes in a brushed-black aluminum top case and soft-touch bottom case make it comfortable to hold. And the Harmony 1100 is rechargeable, so you never have to replace the batteries.