This is the space age. We are living in the George Jetson era and Mr. Spacely is holding the phaser to his ear as we microwave our raw foods and contemplate which robot should serve us dinner. Anything is possible via wireless remote control. OK, maybe it’s not that cool yet but with the application overload from Apple devices, the future is in your hand in your living room. Now. Today.

Think about throwing away all your remotes and using one touch screen display form your Ipad or Imac I-something gadget. Think about how cool it will when visitors and guests watch you nonchalantly make the room erupt in transducer-boggling sound. (That’s after you learn how to work it). NB: These are not whole-house controls, just AV room wireless tech.

I-Got-Control operates much like the wireless connectivity in your laptop but searches for identified devices and appliances in the home that fit the wireless bill. A touchscreen selector wheel allows for easy on-off control of the upstairs air conditioner, the blast speakers that wake the neighbors, and/or the transducers that make Darth Vader’s breath almost pour into your ear.
Price: About $70.

The application RE operates channels like Room, Devices, and Activities for easy punch-in of wireless device direct control. Thumb control save us a trip over “there” or permits easy access when folded within a group of pets/children/loved ones. Unleash audiovisual power with an intuitive grasp and feel for those of us weary of manuals that outweigh the device on “how to work the thingy”.
Price: About $70

FLPR works from the device brand name and launches a mini-universe of specialized software with visual skins in you just have to have your special thing on there. The device lines up programmed macros that work with your home’s sensitive machines. Dongle-enabled gear emits an IR signal in a tiny gadget for micro-mad home entertainers. FLPR is particularly game console friendly.
Price: About $80

The iMac-daddy of them all is the RedEye solution.The big news for the RedEye is a standalone gadget that radiates signal from a cool line-of-sight docking base. This app has the least mobility because there’s no mobile dongle to pocket, the base has to stay near its programmed master. But there is no “aiming” of the oblong McPhone. Meat-and-potatoes wireless device users may prefer the RE, FLIPR or I-Got-Control i-motes.

The RedEye works it own mini-network and will be the lover of the first adopter on your block. A sophisticated app using cloud technology, this software stays updated and uses the “Room, Activities” setup like the RE. The advanced features of the RedEye base make is gesture-programmable for gameplay (Yes, it’s amazing) but additional base nodes are needed for additional rooms. A One-Roomer app.
Price: About $190

Iphone lovers will continue to evangelize their (device’s) superiority, but McPhone owners who are still adapting to their device (resistance is futile!) may want to test drive these for look and feel in the shop. Bare bones home entertainment systems may not need the full fledged RedEye treatment. But gamers will insist on its shake-and-flick gameplay cool.

The Internet has spoken and put its brand on the most important consumer purchase in every home around the globe: the color television. Webby LCD TV is the new must-have in home television, long the standard of consumer wants and needs. Consumers now must have their Internet and LCD TV in one, confirming the congruence between entertainment and information transfer.

The integration of a social network function like FaceBook with a passive activity like watching television is phenomenal. LCD quality picture users can enjoy more fluid video streaming and definition. Uploading photos on Flickr just became a family affair.

The web connectivity enables Pandora and Twitter in one video display conjoined with one keyboard. That’s one better ease of use caliber than dueling desktop windows online. Television in 3DTV is deliverable to the home in high definition. With wireless networks in, the home as well as office and the car, high definition and LCD TV is here.

What can television watching net surfers do? Live chat rooms are hosted by the major networks presently by CBS, for example, to chat with other fans live during an episode of “Survivor”. Will there be a new generation of shows for web enabled TV watchers? Time will tell. A keyboard enabled television experience is now just a mouse click away.

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The current crop of LCD TV offerings comes at a time when vendors are competing with each other at the very top of their game. The latest model LCD and LED televisions are coming into stores at a time when electronics stores and big box stores want to offload their inventory. The down side of the economy has an upside for LCD TV consumers.

Some of the high end LCD TV and HDTV 3DTv models have stratospheric prices. But the ranges of television in terms of price and quality makes any dream home TV affordable. Around $2,000 seems to be the current average for a LCD TV buy with serious  forward motion in the technology.

Television is just for TV watching anymore. You can browse a movie option, check your stock portfolio via an online connection, watch YouTube or TiVo material, or scan the web for inspiration. Even newer state-of-the-art picture quality, color saturation, crispness and clarity as well as 3DTV and HDTV technologies make a TV buyer today spoiled for choice.

1. The Show Stopping HDTV Monster

The Mitsubishi Unisen makes it mark on any home theater console. The Mistubishi LT-46153 in the Unisen class is promoted as a “smart audio” machine, but it’s so much more than that. A beautiful picture and glamorous look will give the family den a step up in decor. This LCD monster is a forty seven inch 120 Hertz display 1080p resolution and a USB input. One new DVD in house and the place becomes a red carpet premiere.

Not only does it show images and play MP3s, but it has a sixteen speaker audio projector. The Unisen model remote has a friendly design and a cool menu for jamming between Blu-Ray, DVR and VCR modes. Fine tuning picture calibration makes a nice touch. Brilliant, Bright, and Natural Color presets. Advanced video viewing options to make any movie lover salivate over the possibilities. This is one LCD TV that will retain value and performance.

2.  The Internet Enabled Special

Streaming movies and fast online signal mean Youtube is now the attraction showing in the family room. Sony makes a good model, but not every consumer has $2,600 to drop. Any Internet enabled Tv will do, but not every one has widgets supporting Yahoo and a special internet menu for mode navigation. Extant cable connections and wireless lines of sight will determine the TV that fits.

Frankly, any Panasonic, LG, Sony or Toshiba LCD or LED TV is going to do you proud. Yet the Samsung series has a lot to recommend its premium line. Wi-Fi enabled, backlit, picture in picture and the new 3dTV rollouts will conquer any technology the family cares to throw in the dragon’s teeth. An Internet LCD TV makes a ultraslim mechanized mount work well with interior space and variable seating. Noise reduction and Skype options make the home LCD TV a communications portal.

3. The Home Theater Premium TV

Home video enthusiasts won’t be surprised to see the Sony KDL-52W5100 fifty two inch LCD HDTV here. A Lucite layered black frame edges the goods and Bravia sync control is about the most popular new brand term in LCD TV. The non-swiveling base will  need a bracket or swivel mount if the home theater or consumer family room demands it.

Game consoles and digital cameras can hook up as well as the home personal computer. But Sony intends its digital partners online to provide the programming and entertainment content. HDMI jack packs allow for wall mounted TV units to conveniently hook up just as easily as their floorbound brethren. This make any bracket mount feasible for this ultraslim TV.

Sony has made the Bravia brand, a , well, household name. This model compares favorably yet has no backlight.  The stunning crispness yet diversity through the tuning options makes any film noir or stunning fantasy film an experience to remember. The Ethernet port in the back of the device area tells the story, TV is not just TV anymore.

Consumers seeing the news ads for LCD TV and 3D TV and HDTV accept a lot of what salespeople tell them about the technology. The trouble is, they just don’t often understand it. Impedance matching and source devices and active and passive speakers may be more technology than the average consumer wants to master. Any home or audio installation manual written one year ago is now outdated.

But the quality is here, theater quality home projection and audio speaker support in “everyday” LCD and HDTV devices for the home. Why do we have to have it? The commercials and ads shouting terms and standards are everywhere. Movie fans, sports lovers and game fanatics enjoy their chosen entertainment, but everybody needs the TV to do it. But especially today, every TV is not the right TV.

Limitations of size, light, cabling, and access to signal have all but been eviscerated with consumer demand driving the need for advanced and high end luxury TV products, which scale a more modest unit to middle class and budget priced product lines. With the better quality and more digitally diverse audio and video products coming even over broadcast TV, putting together the home theater is a technical challenge like never before.

The movies and games played on televisions today require a finer discernment toward picture quality than former era display technologies. The technology products and standards that have been developed in the past decades have enabled the craft of motion picture entertainment, Internet access, game programming, and audio quality to heights never dreamed of by Messieurs Kodak, Bell, and DeMille.

Modern generations will grow up with a CRT in every room and think nothing of it. It is often forgotten than a hundred years ago the home television did not exist. But today, a home LCD television is an instructor, entertainer, athletics coach and home office annex. The quality of life of every person is enriched by the quality of their home TV experience. The LCD TV is today a portal to almost every experience.

The sophistication of the current television shows i terms of digital quality, high definition output, and even three dimensional effects demand a home delivery device able to translate this product. Watching a classic black and white movie needs finer blacks than a portable tailgate TV, and orchestral DVD music for that family film needs a subwoofer and surround sound to blow the roof off the living room

In your grandparent’s era, a large TV was imposing and denoted extra technical power and electrical show quality. But today a inch and half LCD TV can shave space from an intimate floor plan and give home theater planners the footprint flexibility they need. The resolution can give homebound seniors a feeling of freedom and enable families to find a common denominator of entertainment programming.

Every TV is not created alike. Some modern devices are created to enhance a visual effect. Some current LCD models  translate the range of video formats for a adventurous viewer.  The HDTV market delivers a sensory experience that plays across the actual video product being communicated.   Different vendors will create different devices answering to engineering specifications and marketing drivers that make similar seeming products physically dissimiliar in critical ways.

The modern television, with its Internet access and cinema quality visual experience, state of the art audio tuning and facility of placement and watchability options, has replaced the family car in importance.  The necessity for accessories like mounting brackets, extra speakers, more user-friendly remotes and internet access to the TV merely acknowledges that the television now more than ever plays a central role in your life. Shouldn’t it be the best one you can afford?

Having guests over? Expecting family for a visit? Asked the boss over for a game day or inviting that special someone for a casual movie night?   These tech toys can be conversation starters that make you look ahead of the curve, even with those aging velour pillows and dust bunnies lurking. But also for summer travel, group fun, work downtime and coffee shop bragging rights these gadgets are all “most wanted’.

1. Recharging Mats

Getting more charge in the garage was never more high tech than now. Powermat, PureEnergy Solutions, and Witricity are a few of the companies crafting brilliantly sleek power charging mats for pods, device, cellphones, and more. A black-on-black sexy look and feel gives James Bond upgrade to any room. Clean up your pod area and allow guests a handy place to charge up. Metal and magnetic technology make the options complex but appealing.

2. Sound Bars

Cables and wi-fi for the home theater got you down? Got better things to do with your weekend than a LCD TV installation and reading bracket diagrams? Attach a sound bar device under your new or existing LCD, LED or HDTV and enjoy the fascinating tech appeal of minimal audio footprint with maximum delivery of tonal depth and modular density. LCD TV never looked better. Guests will notice audio quality boost right away.

3. Super Mini Lav Mikes

Input microphones that capture sound quality for ad hoc videos YouTube moments, and brilliant off the cuff home karaoke have been the challenge for all miniature media recording formats and devices. Lavalier mikes get sound from more than one person and clean up those white noisy viral marketing videos. the James Bond factor? Portable use means getting what those people behind you in line said for all eternity.

Why buy a miniature lavalier mike? Fewer echoes, no garbling, better digital results. Clarify your presentation for upload to your site with the $25 Audio-Technica (or $450 wireless Sony ) lav mikes. Make your site videos and home entertainment moments more memorable and reproducible instantly. Condensing audio into amateur video painlessly just got easier. And home business deductible, too.

4. Pocket Projectors

Hone your elevator pitch with devices like 3M’s $395 pocket projector. Make your case to the microinvestor standing next to you at the airport or show the partner your quarterly statements waiting for the shuttle. Be the guy with the coolest gadget in the room. Imagine  projecting your pitch in a darkened movie theater before the previews roll an the captive eyes and ears listening.

If you party or entertain at sports venues or private homes, any blank wall in a dark room or exterior surface becomes a conference room. 3 gigabyte memory, Excel and Word, and 20,00 hours of lamp light life mean your message goes until you stop. Make nearby prospects, investors and sponsors speak up and ask to join the party and see the show. Did that Vegas airfare just become tax deductible for your home business?

5. Mini Book Reader

Sony ($400) and CyBook Opus ($199) make some slick little book devices that take the ouch from your shoulder and put that mission to finish “War and Peace’ back on the table. Orientation shifts and menu manipulation bring titles and documents into view. Tiny smart technology LCD screens allow for focused reading in small spaces. A mini book reader is the ultimate grad gift.

Ample space and media access make the sky the limit. The Opus is just over five ounces and the Sony needs a wireless network, but those casual book recommendations just got some instant traction. A USB cable makes reading list content accessible for parents, kids, and companions.

Google books and media card content mean plug and play digestion of the department’s updates and bulletins just got play-date friendly. Got some massive white papers to digest? Waiting for a flight an extra hour? Mixing business with pleasure? Get back to work Monday having done the required reading without lugging the computer bag around all weekend.