today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of a pretty neat little product
from think flood so this is the red eye mini this is a new one it's a mini
version of the original red eye which we are not going to look at except only
briefly there we're going to focus on the mini today so you can see it's
pretty self-explanatory universal remote for iPhone iPod touch and iPad well that
doesn't actually really explain much if you don't know what this product does
already so we're going to do the unboxing really quickly there it's
unboxed that was it okay so inside we
will find the red ey mini which is here
with the infrared uh transmitter on the
front of it and then a headphone jack on the other end that's it that's the whole
thing and then this is cool check this out so this is what makes it mini and
portable this is a little carrying case that you go ahead and you throw on your
keychain you know put that in there and now all of a sudden your iPhone or iPod
or iPad is now a universal remote that you can carry with with you anywhere
pretty neat okay so let's talk about what makes the Mini cool so first of all
it comes down to their software so the
the red eye software is something that you can download for free to your iPod
or iPad it allows you to uh customize
the layout it allows you to use the full multi-touch capabilities of the iPod
iPad okay I'm going to say iPhone because that's what I have um so it's
the iPhone so you can actually change the channel by scrolling right change
the channel by scrolling scrolling left you can adjust the volume by scrolling up and down you have the ability to
access their database of codes you can actually learn from your existing
remotes so before you before you lose them to just quickly learn it on your on
your eye device and then you won't have to worry about finding it anymore ever I
think you can customize the actual button layouts no I know you can customize the button layouts but I don't
know if I said it yet and it comes with its own carrying case no batteries
required and since it plugs into the headphone jack you we've actually still
got access and I'm just going to show you guys what it looks like when you
plug it in so it's not the kind of thing that you'd leave plugged in permanently
obviously but um you know you plug it in
to use it and then it actually leaves your
charging port completely unobstructed at
the bottom so you can actually charge it and then use this at the same time now
it looks like you're going to have to watch out for um for case compatibility
cuz this this is cameraman's iPhone and uh he's got a case that looks like it's
going to interfere with plugging it in fully whereas I'm just using a sticker
and uh yeah I'm not having any clearance problems with that so depending what
kind of a case you're using on your iPhone that's what it's going to look like with the red eyee mini installed so
I'm obviously going to have to do some testing with this device but they
advertise that it'll work awesome with pretty much any device including your TV
your DVD player your cable box anything that accepts an infrared signal from
your remote control so stay tuned for more videos online as Tech tips and
including about this but unboxings reviews all that good stuff and I just
want to ask you guys a question does anybody already have a red eye or a
device like this and if you do what do you think of it