• by Mark Walsh  @markfwal, February 23, 2012

Welcome to Tablet Revolutions II, the long-awaited sequel to MediaPost’s inaugural  conference last year focusing on all things tablet. Leading things off, conference emcee Steve Smith discusses how tablets have become a media “spigot” in their own right. To highlight the rapid emergence of tablets, he shows a Corning ad with futuristic uses of how a talbet can power computer displays around the house.

The tablet becomes part of everyone’s everyday life. We’re not quite there, but the portability and versatile nature of tablets is making them more ubiquitous both in homes and the workplace. Pew estimates that just over the holidays, tablet penetration doubled to about 20% of U.S. adults.