Ousted from the front window of your car by cellular devices, GPS maker Garmin has had to turn to some new sources for income including a wave of fitness trackers and action cameras.
Another of those targets, it turns out, is your old HDTV.
Spotted by Liliputting, Garmin is well under way on the development of the a smart TV stick that's similar to Google's Chromecast, the Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku Streaming Stick. The device is reported to run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean which, considering Android 5.0 Lollipop has already been available for the past few months, seems anachronistic.
Inside the stick you'll also find a 1 GHz Amlogic AML8726 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with ARM Mali-400 graphics and 1GB of RAM, plus 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to connect to your home network and other devices.
The biggest surprise - outside of the streaming stick's existence - is that Garmin chose to run the mobile version of Android instead of Android TV that Sony TVs, the Nexus Player and Nvidia Shield use.
So far Garmin's website is pitching the Vivohub as a way to visualize your fitness goals from the Vivokí activity monitor or Vívofit activity tracker and that it's a "better fit for IT infrastructure, it's designed to seamlessly fit within your business." (The first Garmin Vivohub, in case you're wondering, had similar capabilities minus the HDMI compatibility and built-in Android.) Though, I'll admit, I'm not sure how the last fitness goals and IT tie together...
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