COMBINE two of the world’s most compelling technologies and you’re onto a sure-fire winner, right? Not necessarily—but that’s certainly the aim behind Text2TV which will let you send and receive cellphone text messages via your TV set.
The system is centred on a diminutive set-top box that plugs into a cellphone’s data port and one of the TV set’s multimedia SCART channels. It’s the brainchild of Wireless Ocean, a firm based in the hamlet of Nomansland near Tiverton in Devon. If someone texts you, the message can be displayed on your screen. To reply you can use the TV’s…
