Xbox Smart Glass

This is the future right here. Maybe.

Microsoft have announced Xbox Smart Glass, a revolutionary project that brings together your entire eco-system of products in one fell swoop.

Working with windows, android and ios devices, it lets you control your xbox through an app. This allows you to control your music on your tv, view halo maps on your tablet whilst playing halo 4, use the multi-touch of your phone to browse web pages on your tv or if you're rushing out the door, pick up the film you were watching at the same point on your mobile device.

As those cheeky chappies from South Park said, “How many times have you been watching an episode of ‘South Park’ and thought, ‘I’d like to watch this on my television, while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device, which is hooked into my oven – all while sitting in the refrigerator.”

This has so much potential, yet, as the kinect proved, will no doubt have a lot of teething issues. Give it 5 years and it will be nicely integrated with everything, up until then it will be a frustrating stop-start mission to get it up and running.

Here's hoping it takes off and works straight away though, nice to be optimistic!