[iamthepieman]

What's the control interface for the mobile apps? Is it bluetooth, embedded web server or what? If you make your API open I could probably whip up a web app for it so even schmucks like me without a smartphone could use the full feature set.

[ericbarch]

It's Bluetooth Low Energy. We wrote a very basic Node.js library we're using to control it right now. You can check out the code here: https://github.com/lavallc/ionode Documentation is yet to come, but it will be an open API.

One of these guys and a Linux PC is all you need http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU521/ We'll most likely open source the Try Ion code as well so you can build off that if you like =)