Sony and Ericsson want you to watch TV on your mobile phone

A new generation of people with myopia (nearsightedness) are about to be created.

According to our friends at engadget Sony and Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson are teaming up to get television shows and channels on their mobile sets. In fact, according to Per Nordlof, Ericsson's director of Product Strategy, the two companies want to have a third of all cell phone users watching TV on their handsets by 2008. In order to accomplish this task, the corporate duo (not to be confused with the Dynamic Duo) are working on a number of solutions. One way is to transmit clips from your living room TV directly to a handset. Hmm, didn't The Riddler try to do something like that in Batman Forever (well, it was transmitting TV signals directly to one's brain. I'm trying to make a funny here, folks!).

It's great that the corporate world is moving ahead with the integration of technologies, but I wonder if it should be at the cost of more people needing glasses. Hmm, maybe this is a whole conspiracy between the telecommunications industry and opticians across the globe.