VidaBox’s Media Center PCs Use iPads For Remotes [VidaBox is Moving to Allow Tablet PCs to Serve As Remotes For Their Media Center PC Line]

Posted on TFTS by Steve Anderson on Friday, 25. June 2010 under: Computers & Computing, Devices, PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

In case you haven’t heard of the Turducken, it’s a holiday dish that’s growing in popularity, and is basically a deboned turkey, stuffed with a deboned duck, which is itself stuffed with a deboned chicken. This concept has apparently been around for centuries, but it’s trending into the gadget arena with the announcement from VidaBox that it will soon be enabling wireless support for tablet PCs.

Yes, soon enough, you will be able to use your iPad, itself an entire tablet PC, to serve as the remote control for a larger PC, the VidaBox Media Center PC.

It’s currently making the rounds at the CEDIA Expo, and will allow you to, from your chair with your tablet, access VidaBox Server pictures, movies, and music, along with any relevant meta data, and launch the content to a VidaBox Client system. Further, the VidaBox Media Center will have some home automation systems built into it, and VidaBox is also planning subscription music and Internet radio service.

It sounds awesome, of course; using an entire tablet PC as a mere remote control for a media center system is excess so, well, excessive that it seems more worthy of Futurama’s Hedonism Bot than anything else. And if you can’t wait for that kind of control power, well, take heart–the relevant apps required to do this will be available third quarter 2010.

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