The future of Tv and NEVER TAKE HOLIDAYS!!!

I've attempted to post several items this week, but I went on holidays. And now I'm back. And now I barely have time to eat / sleep / play Call of Duty. So, I'm never taking a holiday again. It's easier.

I'll keep this part short and sweet, because of the aforementioned busyness and it's better explained here. Notion, an Irish strategic industrial design studio from my homeland of Ireland, have developed MetaMirror a programme that integrates the iPad with live TV. In their words:

"Meta-Mirror is a concept application that delivers an enhanced television experience without disrupting the conventional expectations of home entertainment. It allows viewers to access content relevant to the program currently being viewed.
The product is a software platform which runs on a secondary device of the users choice, displaying this contextual content over a mirror of the television broadcast. By bringing together live television, real-time contextual information and an intuitive user interface, Meta Mirror is positioned to update television from uni-directional broadcast to two-way interaction. Three scenarios explain how this can happen:

I've seen several pieces of work that explore the use of the iPhone / iPad as a second screen. CP+B's work for Despicable Me and Best Buy for example:



Very interesting stuff.

Apologies for all of the spelling mistakes, bad grammer, and the most rushed post I've ever written.