Want Honeycomb in your TV? You are able to take your chances with a Google TV -enabled set from Sony , otherwise you can get the total Android experience by adding a connected tablet in your HD mix — if Istanbul-based Ardic gets its solution out the door, no less than. The Turkish company’s prototype uses a ten-inch Android Honeycomb-based tablet to power a 65-inch LCD with 1080p support for basic gestures, like pinch and zoom. The display currently has two touch sensors, but a version with four sensors is at the way, on the way to 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 within the works besides).
The devs customized Android to support 1080p output, and apparently to work quite seamlessly, as you will see within the embedded video. And this is not simply 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 price-efficient smart board alternative. The corporate eventually hopes to give displays in quite a number sizes, in order to all be powered by a pocketable device, along with a smartphone, but watch in wonder because the 65-inch proto now we have today struts its stuff within the video after the break.
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