This time I wanted to show you some of those new technolgies in action. Here is the page for Crestron's Mobile Pro G application. On this page you can see some screen shots of some pretty cool GUI's that have been created. Although this is the page for the Mobile Pro G app, smaller, simpler systems can get away with using the standard mobile app.

For even more interesting GUI's look on this page. These GUI's are winners and other entries into a design contest that was held by Crestron.

If you look at the two movies here in this video (you'll have to click on resources tab) you can see the Crestron Application in use on an iPad.

If you are still interested in how Crestron can help you work with your Apple gear, take a look at all ofCrestron's products for integration with Apple products here.

Crestron is not the company embracing the iPad though. For residential use in your home Sonos has done a fantastic job of putting all of your music "sources" in one place.

With the Sono's app on your iPad, iPhone or soon Android, you can control the Sonoss player using whichever device you have wirelessly. That includes PC's and Macs too. With the Sonos player and one of these devices you can wirelessly control your Sonos player and select from the music files on your PC, Pandora, Rhapsody, Sirius, Napster, Last FM, a ton of radio stations and more. Here is an example of the Sonos application in action. In my opinion the Sonos app is so good it's even better than the app for the PC or their proprietary handheld controller.

Another favorite company of ours here at AV Specialists is RTI technologies. While I feel they have been way too slow to get their products out with regard to Apple integration, the people at RTI make very good, reliable and cost effective products. They also stand behind their products like no other "consumer" based remote control system I know of. So though it's disappointing its not here yet, you can be sure when it gets here it will be good.