The HoME™ Application Creation Platform is a flexible client-server architecture that enables product development teams to create custom pointer-based applications suitable for TV. HoME incorporates a flexible mechanism to display the myriad of applications and services on TV. It presents content in a compelling format using Visual Directories™. Visual Directories can display large volumes of content, enable consistent presentation of content from any source, and make it easy to navigate content using a pointer. Reference applications developed for HoME include Photos, Music, and Videos,- known as HoMEmedia. Hillcrest Labs has also developed games, TV, DVR and on-demand broadband content applications.
The Hillcrest Labs HoME software has been used in the products of several major consumer electronics companies. I worked directly on the software used in these products. One of the products that is currently available for purchase is the Kodak Theatre HD Media Player:
Check out the Amazon product page
You can see a (somewhat cheesy) video of the box in action on Kodak's website
You can also see a more informal video from CES 2010 below:
Hillcrest Labs also makes and sells an awesome standalone wireless pointer called "The Loop". I didn't work directly on this product, which is mostly hardware, but all of our software at Hillcrest was designed to use it:
