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Bang & Olufsen New Beo5 Remote Control

By admin ⋅ September 13, 2007 ⋅  Send this to a friend.. ⋅  Print this article. ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Add to Technorati Favorites

With nothing to give this image scale, you could be forgiven for thinking this is some kind of crazy new television from Bang & Olufsen’s venerable design and concept department, but you’d be wrong. This is in fact the Beo5 - a remote control unit.

Looking quite unlike any remote we’ve ever seen, the Beo5 arrives with no preset features and is instead uniquely customized to the customer’s individual needs. You can even change settings and add/remove devices at any point with a quick visit to the nearest B&O shop.

Completely flexible in terms of applications, it can control all your AV equipment as well as lights, RC curtains, windows, air-con, security systems and , “products with features and functions that are not known yet”.

The Beo 5 is intuitive enough to figure out all the devices you own and presents just the relevant menus and controls on its intelligent hardened glass screen. The menus are copied to the screen on the remote displaying even the station logos, thus you don’t need to remember all those channel numbers. Link rooms are controlled by means of Zones, e.g. the living room or kitchen zone, ensuring that you are using the right gadget in the right room. The sound volume wheel features dedicated tactile buttons within easy reach on the aluminum ball that forms the lower half of Beo 5.

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