Interlink Rechargeable Bluetooth Laptop Remote Control

There used to be a huge price and performance difference between laptop and desktop PCs. It was really only worth buying a laptop if you were going to be spending time on the road and your computing needs were limited to word processing, email and simple spreadsheets.  

In the last couple of years, though, portable computers have fallen in price enough to be a viable alternative to a desktop as your main PC. At the same time they’ve increased in power to the point where you can even play videogames on some of them.

In fact, as a portable entertainment device a well-specified laptop is hard to beat. It’ll show DVD movies, store and play your entire music collection, display all your pictures, as well as doing all those wonderful things on the internet that you know you shouldn’t.

This can be a blessing if you’re working away from home. You’re knackered and all you really want to do is lie in your hotel bed and watch telly. That’s until you find the only English-language channels are CNN with its interminable 15-minute loop or Eurosport featuring repeats of the Hungarian rowing championship. The exorbitant pay-per-view choice is between a Chuck Norris action movie, a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy or tattooed lesbian porn in German,

But if you’ve remembered to bring a DVD with you then your entertainment problems are solved. You can watch that until you nod off. Well you could if you didn’t have to get out of bed to switch off your laptop.

But this nifty little device solves the problem for people with a recent laptop equipped with Bluetooth and an ExpressCard slot for recharging and storing the device. You might even be lucky enough to justify it on expenses because, as well as acting as an entertainment remote control, it can be used up to 30 feet away for PowerPoint demonstrations.There used to be a huge price and performance difference between laptop and desktop PCs. It was really only worth buying a laptop if you were going to be spending time on the road and your computing needs were limited to word processing, email and simple spreadsheets.  

In the last couple of years, though, portable computers have fallen in price enough to be a viable alternative to a desktop as your main PC. At the same time they’ve increased in power to the point where you can even play videogames on some of them.

In fact, as a portable entertainment device a well-specified laptop is hard to beat. It’ll show DVD movies, store and play your entire music collection, display all your pictures, as well as doing all those wonderful things on the internet that you know you shouldn’t.

This can be a blessing if you’re working away from home. You’re knackered and all you really want to do is lie in your hotel bed and watch telly. That’s until you find the only English-language channels are CNN with its interminable 15-minute loop or Eurosport featuring repeats of the Hungarian rowing championship. The exorbitant pay-per-view choice is between a Chuck Norris action movie, a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy or tattooed lesbian porn in German,

But if you’ve remembered to bring a DVD with you then your entertainment problems are solved. You can watch that until you nod off. Well you could if you didn’t have to get out of bed to switch off your laptop.

But this nifty little device solves the problem for people with a recent laptop equipped with Bluetooth and an ExpressCard slot for recharging and storing the device. You might even be lucky enough to justify it on expenses because, as well as acting as an entertainment remote control, it can be used up to 30 feet away for PowerPoint demonstrations.

This article was originally published in September 2006