Flingo Sync Apps Provide the TV That Watches You

By Dennis Kuba
August 22, 2011

Flingo, a new San Francisco-based startup, says its technology can watch what you are viewing on TV and with your permission present you with relevant Web content.
“Any mobile app or Web page being used in front of your TV can ask our servers what is on right now,” says David Harrison, cofounder and CTO of Flingo. “For example, you could go to Google or IMDb and the page would already know what’s on the screen. Retailers like Amazon or Walmart might want to show you things to buy related to a show, like DVDs, or what people are wearing in it.”
Additionally, social sites such as Facebook or Twitter would be able to connect viewers to a TV show’s official page or stream.
A major TV manufacturer will build Flingo’s Sync Apps into their TVs, which will reportedly retail for less than $500.
Flingo has relationships with CBS, Fox and MTV.

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