Screen Grabs: Tango supplants FaceTime for Big Bang Theory videocall

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com . It may not share the same level of name recognition as FaceTime (or heck, even Fring ), but Tango’s multi-platform videocalling app is still a very real alternative. So real, in fact, that it was just used in an episode of The Big Bang Theory as a highly fictional (and severely busted) character makes an outlandish videocall to a mythical group of friends. Or was it all just a dream? Hop on down to the source link (and fast-forward to the 13th minute) to find out. [Thanks, Sowmitra] Gallery: Tango videocalling app stars on The Big Bang Theory Screen Grabs: Tango supplants FaceTime for Big Bang Theory videocall originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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