The Mosaic is an interactive remote control that can send and receive e-mail as well as punch up details about the program you're watching. You don't have to make those compromises. So Universal Electronics came up with the Mosaic, a wireless, hand-held device that can operate pretty much every appliance in the house except the toaster while displaying information via a touch screen.
Experimentation continues with various forms of interactivity.
Liberty doesn't really care what form this nexus of television and the Internet takes so long as people are comfortable with it. Beddow came to his own epiphany about the two-screen variation last year, he says, based on the way viewers are independently wedding the two media. Over time, the multiscreen environment will win out. It deals with the issue of individual personalization. By now I had finished the third beer, and Beddow was still making sense.