By now you’ll know that I’m a sucker for gadgets, but there is one gadget in particular I almost never leave home without. And it’s not my mobile phone; it’s a universal remote control!

One of my earlier articles on TravelTechTalk described how you can use these as a better remote for the hotel TV, and how you can program them to enable the use of a line-in connector on that TV.

The top-of-the-line home remote from Logitech just dropped to $179! And of course, when you get home for the weekend, you’ll have an awesome universal remote for your home entertainment system.

The reason I love these so much? You hook them up to your PC and download even the most obscure of infra-red commands to it.

Purchase link: Amazon.com