Check out this video of the iPad 2 playing Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade on a 50-inch LG HDTV running at 1080p, thanks to the new iPad HDMI adapter. That’s a ten-dollar game looking just as lurid and beautiful in high-definition as a $60 Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 game.
Here’s another video of Real Racing 2 HD in action on the same setup:
Touch Gen has more videos of iPad 2 games in action through the official HDMI adapter. Why Apple doesn’t just let the $99 AppleTV play apps through a paired iOS device is beyond me: they’d single handedly destroy Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in the console games market with one swoop.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
