Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of IR Blasters.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and our regular show is off today, but we want to play you

an episode from the new season of version history.

Virgin history, if you don't know, is our show about old technology.

We tell the story of some of the most important products in tech history.

On this episode, it's one of our favorites. It's the Harmony Remote, the Universal Remote that promised to give you one thing to control everything. It's me, Neely Patel, the Virges John Higgins, and Matt Rogers, the former co-founder of Nest. Nest, by the way, another episode we're doing this season, but Matt demanded to talk about Harmony.

It's a really fun episode. I think you'll enjoy it. Here it is.

Around the turn of the century, two guys in Canada had an idea that maybe they could build a product

that could simultaneously control your TV, your home theater, your VCR, your DVD player,

and everything else in your living room.

And that maybe if they could get that product into your living room, all that would be just

the beginning.

From the Virgin Vox Media, this is version history, a show about the best and worst and

strangest and most important products in tech history.

I'm David Pierce, and today, it's time for the story of the Harmony

Remote.

Support for the show comes from Service Now. AI is moving fast across the enterprise, but without visibility, it's just chaos.

Different tools, different models, different teams using AI in completely different ways.

Service Now turns that chaos into control.

With the AI control tower, you see all your AI across the business in one place, what it's doing, what it's done, and what it's about to do, so you stay in control.

To put AI to work for people, visit servicenow.com.

Support for today's show comes from Dell.

...