Trawling the interwebs is a hobby of mine and I love to hear about new tech. I recently discovered a company is trying to create something more useful for sideshow to do than tell you how many mails you have.

Threemote Blog.

It seems they’re planning to put sideshow onto a range of devices and in a two-way full implementation so that you can use your smartphone as a remote for your computer.

I’m going to keep my eye on them. I’m not entirely sure about the “Golden-i” they mention… It’s bad enough with bluetooth earpieces. Threemote reminds me of the old Salling Clicker tool for the mac, but all widgety.

Ordinarily a toy for Windows would be about as useful to me as a chocolate teapot. I don’t actually own a physical windows box any more and I only recently booted Vista just to make my momento work. I wonder if I could do anything interesting with it on the mac? iPhone’s Remote app is great if you just want to do iTunes and there are other apps to control specific functions, and even apps to allow the phone to be a mouse/keyboard.

What if you could do several remote things in one app, and not just on the iPhone. That may be interesting to more people.