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Garage|Shadow: Open Your Garage Door With Your BlackBerry!

By: , IntoMobile
Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 9:34 AM

The folks at Unify4Life first popped on the scene back at last years’ CES. They demonstrated and delivered a remote control system that allows you to control all of your audio and video equipment from the palm of your hand… From your BlackBerry. Incredibly cool.

By the sounds of things, it looks like the folks at Unify4Life have been busy bees getting a new application ready for the Berry-loving public, and I think it’ll be a hit. Called Garage|Shadow, the new app will let BlackBerry users open and close their garage door from their BlackBerry device. How cool is that? After a long day at work, no doubt most berry-toting professionals will appreciate the ability to open their garage door with a simple input on their Berry. No doubt most folks will be talking or texting on their Berry at the time anyway :P

Garage|Shadow will be demonstrated at CES from the RIM booth, and is apparently due out in early April of this year. Look for more news on this one shortly.

Note: Hmmmm… Kind of reminds me of that Android garage door opener.

[Via: CrackBerry]

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  • joel

    Garage Shadow out in April – break-ins via hacked garage doors will spike in May. Hope people get used to locking the door from the garage into the house and remember not to leave valuables in the garage.

  • Pam

    I work for a garage door company and I’d like to share some information I’ve learned while out on jobsites fixing and installing openers. Garage door opener motors are dumb, they are receivers and the remotes are the transmitters. For those of you who might not know what a transmitter or receiver do let me put it to you this way; the remote is the one telling the motor what to do. Without the proper code being sent to the opener by the remote it won’t open. The majority of openers on the market today use a technology called “rolling code” which means your opener motor is constantly cycling and searching for the code from your remote. Knowing the business the way I do I don’t see how the Garage Shadow is going to increase break-ins. But then again if someone is desperate enough they’ll find a way to break in anyway.

  • Elson Lahoud

    omg this guy is so dummm !!! i hate him he’s really cheating….check out 4:49 the attery wasn’t full !!! and plus the iphone lasts 9 hours with using apps and phone but WITH FULL BATTERY HUNNY dn’t try to trick us ..bybyeee …but at some point u were right .:D

  • Elson Lahoud

    i’m talking about the vidio of the comparing smart phones and iphone was in 2nd place after orange htc

  • ron

    13 yrs in garage door business myself wondering dont you have 2 have access to the smart button on opener to to hook in garage shadow?