Cool Laptop Accessories (2): Watch live TV from anywhere

Readers, here are 10 cool ways to add useful new features and functionality -- plus security and convenience -- to your laptop without your even having to crack the case. We post them one by one. Do want to have it?,. You can review it before you make a decision to buy it. Enjoy.

Watch live TV from anywhere
Don't be a slave to the endlessly looping CNN feed on the solitary TV in the airport departure lounge. Instead, get whatever TV programming you want by tuning in to your cable box at home via a Sling Media Slingbox. The Slingbox attaches to both your cable box and your home broadband connection, and intercepts whatever's coming through the cable box and "slings" it to your computer, wherever you might be. Controls integrated into the custom Slingbox application you install on your laptop let you change channels on your cable box back home. Plug in a TiVo or a DVD player, and you can watch video from those sources as well (physically changing DVDs, however, is beyond the powers of the humble Slingbox). The bright red, $230 Slingbox Pro is the top of the line; its component connections let you hook up even a Blu-ray box (though the device downconverts high-def footage).

(source: tech.msn)