This is what it sounds like…when Tamagotchi cry

Phillip Torrone from Make comes up with a clever way to “listen” to what the tamagotchi’s are saying via their IR ports. He uses a Griffin Total Remote to capture the “sound” and then later wants to make a virtual (virtual) pet. He hopes to do this on a PDA or a ipod. This got me thinking… theres a number of “remote control emulators” for both laptops that have IR as well as on the palm “learning remotes” they call them. I wonder if something like that would would for a better send/receive method.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/this_is_what_it.html

Some things I have found that may work:
http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/circuits/PCIR/Welcome.html
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=IR+remote&tg=dl-20&search.x=0&search.y=0&search=+Go%21+ (this on is some different types of software to capture IR singnals on laptops equiped with IR, as well as PDA’s)