The Caavo remote can unify your TV experience, but also maybe it will fail
Many years ago, in a moment of candid honesty, Nilay Patel described how his childhood was somehow defined and irrevocably ruined by an attempt to set up and use an IR blaster. It might also have had something to do with being a Packers fan? I can’t remember clearly, it was so long ago. The important takeaway was that IR blasters are in some way disastrous and evil.
It’s 2018. Nilay is now my boss, and seems relatively chill for someone who struggled so mightily with a glorified TV remote in his past.
And so it was with great interest last month that I read Nilay’s review of Caavo: the IR blaster to end all IR blasters. It uses machine vision! It has eight HDMI inputs! It’s an absurd amount of engineering and workarounds to make a...