Video Description: Technology is amazing, especially when it blows the mind like the motion sensor Kymera Magic Wand universal remote, turn yourself into a toy with Be A Doll, a blood powered lamp and a pulsating PC Tumor.
This german girl controls a tv + a receiver with a magic wand, At first i didn’t believe this. But she explained that it’s a promotional gift from SKY Germany. Really cool this.
Guy in Bremen shuts down various branded tv’s with a magic wand. Even from 15 meters. Really cool gadget. It’s a product that you get at SKY.
Wandmaker Chris Barnardo’s daughter India took four videos of him practicing with the Kymera Wand. These were uploaded to youtube.
Opening the wand parcel, looking at the wand and taking out the battery tab
Practising with the wand to make sure you are doing the right gestures
Teaching the wand a code
Using the Kymea Wand
Have fun watching those and give us feedback, how you like them and if there should be more videos of the Kymera Wand.
Perhaps these could go on the blog?
Kymera wand owner thechosenone07 uploaded the first customer video onto youtube.
You can see the video on this page on beep.tv2.
Unfortunately its all in danish, but we try to translate the page using some weird kind of magic.
Here is a low quality youtube version of the video (The wand is presented from about the beginning to 2:13).
In the meantime Kymera fan Jan Nikolajsen translated the post for us (with permission).
A review by TV2 beep:
This is how a real wand works
It’s not just bearded men with tall pointy hats, who are allowed to swing with wands. You have the opportunity youself, and we’ve tried the most strange gadget we’ve ever seen.
There are products you really can’t see the idea beind, and then gadgets that are so strange and different, that you would never imagine they would be for sale.
For two weeks ago, we wrote about a very real wand, called Kymera, and to be honest, I though it was a joke, but when a Danish contact person wrote to us, to hear if we wanted to test the wand, we wouldn’t say no.
Many have been running around as little with a stick, trying to make bushes to enemies or make mess in a room disappear. But yet, those “magic wands” haven’t quite worked for me.
Considerable skepticism
Therefore, my skepticism was indeed more than apparent, when I received the wand in a black oblong box. But when I saw the wand Kymera down in the box presented in red, I had to give me a bit.
Suddenly I was aware of the magic moments.
I don’t know what I had expected, but wands today still can’t make the mess disappear, make my wife into a bush or do anything else, than act as a good old-fashioned remote control. But it also does that fine.
Magic on your tv
Kymera itself is made by a company, who of course have the firm name, The Wand Company Ltd. Their somewhat different remote control can control a TV from movement, and it’s more techable than one might think.
By turning the wand vertically and tap two times on the middle, you get the opportunity to learn your wand some tricks from your remote. It’s shakes gently when it has understood, and when you’re then sitting in front of your TV, flicking your wand to shift channel, it shakes gently to confirm as well.
It works surpringly well, even though it can be a bit hard to learn the difference between the many movements your hand can perform. But if you just learn your wand tricks with widely different gestures, then you’re one step further.Of course, this wand is also meant more as a smile, than a replacement of your remote control. It can only learn up to 13 different tricks, and the gestures can be somewhat cumbersome in length unlike what you’re used to – by pushing the button. And as one colleague pointed out, it’s much more fun to have on your table, than an ordinary remote control.
Kymera Specifications:
- Uses 2 AAA-batteries, can learn 13 “tricks”
- Costs about 100 dollars
- Is out from October 1st (2009)
We LOVE: Always interesting with magic wands, pretty techable, looks more fun than a remote control.
We HATE: Can’t make things disappear, actually it can’t do magic! Only 13 gestures, it’s difficult to distinguish between the different movements.
Written by David Guldager (Original danish review here
Translated from danish to english by Jan Nikolajsen
Introducing The Wand – a Firebox UK First!
Firebox Minimail October 2009
The Wand has just materialised into the Firebox warehouse, and it’s
simply magical. Its thirteen programmable functions can learn to
control anything that uses a remote – that includes your iPod dock,
TV, digibox, stereo and even a light switch! You’d better snap one up
before they all do a disappearing act.
Until next time
The Firebox Team
Kymera Wand at Firebox
Quoted from their site:
Harry Potter might be a dab hand at casting spells but we’ve yet to see him use his wand to switch off Holby City, series link EastEnders or mute Jeremy Kyle mid-rant. And that’s because the annoying little brat has only got a wand, not the Wand.
Description
Utterly astounding, this beautifully crafted gizmo looks like the kind of thing you might find in Diagon Alley. The difference is you use it to control your telly, Sky, digibox, stereo or any other infra-red device via various abracadabra-ish gestures. Simply swish, whirl and flick to change channels, adjust volume and much more. Incredible! What Katie and Peter Did Next? *ZAP!* Who cares? Your swish really is its command.
Totally button-free, the Wand can ‘learn’ up to 13 infrared codes from your existing remote(s) and fling them into the ether when you perform one of 13 predefined gestures. It’s a kind of magic. Okay, it isn’t but making Vernon Kay vanish has never been such fun. Silencio Imbecilicus!
You can assign various functions to various moves: flicks to turn on and off; spins to control volume; big swishes to mute and so on. You’ll be flicking just for the fun of it. Better still, rival wizards will be unable to mess with the telly or digibox unless you show them your moves. Hocus flippin’ pocus!
To add to its supernatural nature, the Wand also features a ‘heartbeat’ in the form of various pulses that confirm gesture recognition and tell you when the batteries are low. It even goes into sleep mode after 60 seconds of inactivity and ‘wakes’ when you pick it up. It’s just like having a real magic wand, only you won’t have to wear a stupid cloak or marry Debbie McGee. Magic!
Gorgeously packaged in a smart presentation box, the Wand is set to become the remote control of choice for any gadgeteer with Potter-esque aspirations. So don’t be a Muggle, get ordering. It’s totally wizard!
This is my first youtube video showing how easy it is to control a MacBook with the Wand.
More Mac goodies are to come.
In a chat with wand craftsmaster Richard Blakesley, he pointed me to the new youtube videos he just released.
There you can see him controlling a TV and a IR-light switch with the wand.
If you look carefully you see that most movements are very subtle. Only the “Big Swish” is like a young wizard’s movement.
The gestures you can see in the video are (with their pulse counts)
