Logitech Harmony 1100 Touch Screen Universal Remote Harmony 1100 Wins CES Award

Logitech's Harmony range of universal remotes is set to expand with the
up and coming availability of Logitech's new Harmony 1100 advanced touch
screen universal remote which serves to build upon the success or the
long since available Harmony 1000 universal remote and the fact that the
Harmony 1100 has received the CES 2009 Design and Engineering Award:
Best of Innovations will undoubtedly serve to give Logitech's new
universal remote an immediate edge over its competitors.

'The Harmony 1100 is a natural extension of the Harmony promise - to
simplify today’s complex home-entertainment systems,' said Ashish
Arora, vice president and general manager of Logitech’s Harmony
business unit who introduced the new Harmony 1100. 'As more and more
people get the bulk of their entertainment at home, the Harmony 1100
will help people get more out of their home-entertainment experience -
for a fraction of the price of traditional custom-installed remotes.'

The brushed black aluminium, palm sized Harmony 1100 boasts a QVGA
resolution 3.5' touch screen and, apart from running newly developed
Harmony software, comes with the ability to add shortcuts to the most
used commands within immediate reach or to appear based on particular
mode selections (Logitech's press release stating, by way of an example,
'If you love to watch movies, for example, and are always using the Play
and Pause buttons, you can tell the Harmony 1100 to make those commands
immediately available on the screen once you start your movie').

Logitech's press release detail the Harmony 1100's Key Features as follows:

One Touch to Your Entertainment: The Harmony 1100 delivers the renowned
benefits common to the Harmony family of universal remotes, including
its exclusive one-touch activity-based control system powered by the
world’s largest A/V-control database of entertainment equipment,
as well as its convenient online setup process. The Harmony 1100 remote
simplifies your entertainment with one-touch activity-based control. The
whole family, your friends, and even the babysitter can simply select
what they want to do by choosing the appropriate on-screen icon - such
as “Watch TV” - and the Harmony 1100 remote does the rest.
The remote will turn on the TV, the DVD player, the A/V receiver and any
other necessary devices. There’s no need to control components
individually - the Harmony 1100 remote manages everything.

Guided Online Setup: Logitech’s Internet-based setup makes getting
the Harmony 1100 up and running as easy as possible. With its intuitive
setup wizard guiding the process, the Harmony 1100 online interface
allows you to enter your components’ make and model numbers. Then,
this information is automatically matched to the characteristics,
discrete codes and infrared commands of the more than 225,000 devices
from more than 5,000 manufacturers contained in Logitech’s online
database. Any devices that aren’t in the database can be quickly
added. When you want to add a device to your living room, you can be
confident that the Harmony 1100 remote will work with the devices you
own today, and the ones you’ll buy in the future.

The Logitech Harmony 1100 Touch Screen Universal Remote is set to begin
shipping in the US and Europe as of February and will set you back just
shy of $500.