Use an IPOD as a remote

I was reading this article at Toms Hardware and was interested to see the use of an IPOD TOUCH as their preferred remote for their HTPC build. Some interesting features came up:

- Air mouse uses the built in accelerometer to translate hand motions into mouse movements on the screen.

- It can also operate as a trackpad, allowing you to control your computer with a single finger.

- Media keys & Web keys

- Application notifications

- Remote keyboard with modifier, function and arrow keys

- Programable hotkeys (can be set to run a program or keyboard combination)

- Scroll pad

- Multitouch gestures (scroll & right click)

- Custom sensitivity settings

- Foreign language keyboards

There's a video demonstration and more information here

I Dont know about the pros and cons about using this with MP yet, but it does look promising.

Slightly offtopic, sorry, but I would really dig an iPhone remote app for Mediaportal like the one for boxee:
boxee blog boxee iPhone remote app available on the App Store

Have a look at the video, especially the gesture mode rules!