25 Products We Can't Live Without

Between the DVR, the DVD player, the TV set, the CD changer, the Xbox 360, the Mac Mini, and the receiver connected to them, my coffee table would be drowning in remotes but for my Logitech Harmony 670 Advanced Universal Remote. Logitech's universal remotes don't just replace the controllers that come with your A/V components, they go far beyond them. Press the Harmony's Watch Movie activity button, and the appropriate devices turn on, switch to the right inputs, and begin playing. It takes some configuration (you'll have to install an app on your PC and tell the remote which components you have and how they're connected), but once the Harmony is dialed in, you'll never need your old controllers again. This is the way all remotes should work.

--Eric Dahl, senior editor