SNL’s touchscreen parody used same technology as CNN’s

In tonight’s re-run of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday, we noticed a credit line that read: “Promotional Consideration Provided by Perspective Pixel.”

Perspective Pixel is the company that makes CNN’s real-life touchscreen technology that John King uses, which SNL parodied Thursday.

For more on Perspective Pixel and its use at CNN, check out these articles:

• CNN’s Election Night Interpreter Revels in a High-Tech Toy
• CNN Hits The Wall for the Election
• Super Tuesday: Night Of The Touch-Screens