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Ortek Windows Infrared Receiver Ultimate
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
I use XBMC running on an R-Pi and control it with a cheap "media center" remote control [1]. While it does include a "mouse function" via a kind of d-pad I've only ever had to use it a handful of times to do things which are so rare I haven't bothered to bind a button to them; ie: force a video to a certain aspect ratio because it was encoded badly.
For the 99.9% of interactions with the system the remote is superior to a mouse.
1: http://www.amazon.com/Ortek-Windows-Infrared-Receiver-Ultima...