Google TV Fling. Snapstick. Snapstick Tosses Web Content to the TV with Phone Gestures. “It’s like magic!” Says the demo video for Snapstick, a new web video solution for your television. On Wednesday we looked at Peel, an IR solution that turns an iPhone into a TV remote. Snapstick has the same goal, but accomplishes it in an even stranger way--the phone interfaces via Wi-Fi to a web streaming box connected to the TV over HDMI.
And when you flick your wrist towards the TV, it automatically loads whatever web content you have pulled up on your phone! That almost does sound like magic. But we won’t be fooled--it’s all technology. We dig the gesture control, but there’s not much else here. AirPlay.