A TrackPad-Like Remote for the New Apple TV?

Dan Wineman from Venomous Porridge suggests that Apple could potentially announce a new trackpad-like gesture based remote control for the rumored iTV.

It’s the love child of an iPod touch and a Magic Trackpad. It has the same inertial and gyroscopic motion sensors as the iPhone 4, and the same multitouch surface we’re familiar with. A home button. Bluetooth. No screen.

Wineman suggests that iPhones and iPods could also be used as remotes via an iTV app. That way you wouldn't need to buy a lot of controllers for visiting friends.


Some games will make use of those screens if they’re present: you could do the SCRABBLE Tile Rack thing, for example.

The remote controllers are theorized to cost less than $50 with one shipping along with the device to replace the standard remote.

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