Innovation of the week: A universal remote to control your smart home

The Internet of Things can seem awfully cluttered

A remote control for nearly everything.

One of the more annoying aspects of the Internet of Things is having to rely on a medley of apps to control your home’s smart gadgets, said Nick Statt in The Verge. To make the smart home more manageable, appliance maker Sevenhugs is developing a universal remote that can control any Wi-Fi- or Bluetooth-connected device, even "conforming its interface to match whatever it’s controlling."

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