Would you like to taste honey comb on a 65 inch screen, well there are a couple of options available to you could take a chance with one of Sony’s Google TV’s or you could link up a tablet using a HDMI out.
Using either of these methods however have there drawbacks the fact that you would need to use a secondary input method inorder to control the TV, well a Turkish company has went one better.
The Turkish company’s prototype uses a 10-inch Android Honeycomb tablet to power a 65-inch LCD with 1080p support for gestures, like pinch and zoom. The display at the moment has two touch sensors, but a version with four sensors is on the way, which will bring multi-touch support. The tablet is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC, and includes 1GB of RAM, 16GB of flash memory, dual cameras, HDMI, USB, microSD and 3G and WiFi connectivity. A dock enables instant connectivity with the OEM TV, including HDMI for video and audio, and USB for touch input (a wireless version is on the way too).
The devselopers customized Android to support 1080p output, and it appears to work quite brilliantly. And this isn’t just another goofy demo or proof of concept the Turkish company is in talks with education and enterprise customers and hopes to bring this setup to production as a more power- and cost-efficient smart board alternative. The company eventually hopes to offer displays in a variety of sizes, that will all be powered by a pocketable device, such as a smartphone.
It is an amazing concept a tablet the size of a TV, but how many uses are there actually for this type of device. The possibility of an output through the tv then using the table on your lap to control what you are seeing on the TV seems a more realistic option to me but the TV being the touch screen imaging the fingerprints.
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