I just saw an interesting new feature from Sky, the satellite TV provider. You can program your set-top-box on your mobile phone. So if you are away from home and hear of an interesting show you can whip out the mobile phone, find the relevant show and set it to record. Presumably the Sky mobile server then communicates with your set-top-box at home.
A simple but useful idea. I wonder how much mobile phones will come to be remote controls for all manner of other fixed devices? I wouldn’t mind being able to SMS my car to turn on the heating 5 minutes before I get into it.
