Kymera Magic Wand Remote Control

Fancy adding a bit of magic to your every day life? Introducing the fantastic Kymera Magic Wand buttonless remote control as featured on BBC’s Dragon’s Den. Even Duncan Bannatyne - one of the scarier Dragons - was so impressed he invested £200,000!

Inspired by Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, you can forget that you’re a boring old muggle and change the channel with a simple wave, point or twist of the wrist. Always wanted to have the power of the immortals? The wand will give you the ultimate control  - well in the home at least!

Ok, as kids we were all amazed by the technology of the remote control when it first came into use. Well now the boring old remote control comes in a far more enchanting style. Plus the whole experience of opening the wand for the first time is one of discovery - you see a dark brown elegant wand cradled in a luxurious silk brocade. However, don’t be fooled – the old fashioned look and feel of the wand hides a highly advanced piece of technology.

So how does it work?

The buttonless Kymera Wand can 'learn' up to 13 infra-red codes - unique patterns of light that send simple instructions to receiver units on electrical items - and assign each command a gesture. All 13 gestures can be dedicated to one device or split between several. In other words, the wand can be used for changing channels on your TV, controlling hi-fis, DVD players, set-top boxes, iPod docks, Apple, Macs and even remote-controlled light switches and curtains.

• Kymera Magic wand which is really a Universal Remote control
• Features 13 gestures in total including Big/Swish, Push forward, Pull Back and two single and double taps
• For example - rotate clockwise and anti-clockwise – great for adjusting the volume.
• Flick up and flick down are perfect for channel up /down
• Flick left and right could be used for track skip.
• Wand pulses which tells you what you are doing; leave the wand for a minute and it goes into sleep mode; picking up or moving it “wakes” it up and pulses with three heartbeats
• Comes packaged in a lovely dark box
• Requires 2 x AAA batteries (included)

And finally, if you want to know how it works (and shatter the illusion), read the Techno Magic blurb below...

Techno Magic…… It may be a magic wand, but it’s all powered by the wonders of modern science.

The technology that powers the wand is based on science, but it is so advanced and so miniaturised that it might as well be magic. Based on the advances in motion sensing, the accelerometer that tells the wand’s microprocessor how hard it is and in which direction accelerating was originally developed for use in cars. These tiny silicon architectures are microscopically small but can detect the force of gravity even at rest. They are the sort of thing that detects if you are slowing down very rapidly in a traffic accident and signals for the airbag to deploy, or you’ll find them in mobile phones and cameras telling the device which way up to put the picture.

The wand has a special three axis accelerometer that can measure the g force in x-y-and –z. Using this information, and constantly updating the programme for the orientation of the wand, a special program on the onboard microprocessor can tell how the wand is being moved about. Using some clever maths the microprocessor determines if the move made by the wand bearer was a deliberate on and if so, whether or not it was one of the predefined gestures programmed into it at manufacture. If it recognises the gesture then the wand’s microprocessor plays back the infra red remote code that it has been taught by the user to associate with that gesture. A very small vibration motor similar to that found in a mobile phone gently pulses inside the wand to give what is called haptic feedback to the user so that they know that the wand has understood the gesture and has emitted an infrared remote control code.

The whole assembly is squeezed into the shape of a wand, and put together so that there are no visible seams and no unsightly screws to give the game away and that’s it, the Kymera Wand. It’s simple really. Spin back 50 or 100 years and what the wand does would have been real magic, but if you spin back a further 200 years it’s likely you would have been burnt at the stake for using the Kymera Wand. But then you wouldn’t have had a 72inch plasma screen to magically control.