Mozilla dev dangles Chromecast clone dongle

Mozilla dev dangles Chromecast clone dongle
Firefox OS clone would bring video from phones and browsers to your telly
By Simon Sharwood, 23 Jun 2014

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Mozilla Developer Network principal developer evangelist Christian Heilmann has popped out a tweet mentioning an effort to clone Google's Chromecast dongle, but with Firefox OS under the hood.

Chromecast is a minimalist Android computer that offers WiFi and an HDMI plug. The WiFi sucks video out of devices running Google's Chrome browser, the HDMI plug shoots it into a television rather more elegantly than is the case with either cables or the perennially-flaky DLNA. The result is a handy way to send a device's screen to a larger display.

News of a Firefox OS-based competitor came when Heilmann fluttered out the tweet below.

Full read here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/23/mozilla_dev_dangles_chromecast_clone_dongle/