diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 51538ad..b8dec80 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 Gemfile.lock
 pkg/*
 vendor/ruby
+*.DS_Store
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a800b08..eb73d8f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Mobile Fu
 Want to automatically detect mobile devices that access your Rails application?
 Mobile Fu allows you to do just that.  People can access your site from a Palm,
 Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Nokia, etc. and it will automatically adjust the format
-of the request from :html to :mobile.
+of the request from :html to :mobile or :tablet.
 
 Installation
 ------------
@@ -25,18 +25,22 @@ set as :mobile format.  It is up to you to determine how you want to handle
 these requests.  It is also up to you to create the .mobile.erb versions of
 your views that are to be requested.
 
-Mobile Fu automatically adds a new `:mobile` to `text/html` mime type alias for 
-Rails apps. If you already have a custom `:mobile` alias registered in 
+Mobile Fu automatically adds a new `:mobile` and `:tablet` to `text/html` mime type 
+alias for Rails apps. If you already have a custom `:mobile` alias registered in 
 `config/initializers/mime_types.rb`, you can remove that.
 
 I recommend that you setup a before_filter that will redirect to a specific page
 depending on whether or not it is a mobile request.  How can you check this?
 
-    is_mobile_device? # => Returns true or false depending on the device
+    is_mobile_device? # => Returns true or false depending on the device or
+
+    is_tablet_device? # => Returns true if the device is a tablet
 
 You can also determine which format is currently set in by calling the following:
 
-    in_mobile_view? # => Returns true or false depending on current req. format
+    in_mobile_view? # => Returns true or false depending on current req. format or
+
+    in_tablet_view? # => Returns true if the current req. format is for tablet view
 
 Also, if you want the ability to allow a user to switch between 'mobile' and
 'standard' format (:html), you can just adjust the mobile_view session variable
@@ -45,6 +49,9 @@ in a custom controller action.
     session[:mobile_view] # => Set to true if request format is :mobile and false
                                if set to :html
 
+    session[:tablet_view] # => Set to true if request format is :tablet and false
+                               if set to :html
+
 So, different devices need different styling.  Don't worry, we've got this
 baked in to Mobile Fu.
 
@@ -86,5 +93,11 @@ mobile device emulator, or you can call `force_mobile_format` in a before filter
       before_filter :force_mobile_format
     end
 
+You can also force the tablet view by calling `force_tablet_format` instead
+
+    class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
+      has_mobile_fu
+      before_filter :force_tablet_format
+    end
 
 Copyright (c) 2008 Brendan G. Lim, Intridea, Inc., released under the MIT license
diff --git a/lib/mobile-fu.rb b/lib/mobile-fu.rb
index c7408b7..d96a09a 100644
--- a/lib/mobile-fu.rb
+++ b/lib/mobile-fu.rb
@@ -25,11 +25,16 @@ class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
     end
 
     Mime::Type.register_alias "text/html", :mobile
+    Mime::Type.register_alias "text/html", :tablet
   end
 end
 
 module ActionController
   module MobileFu
+    # These are various strings that can be found in tablet devices.  Please feel free
+    # to add on to this list.
+    TABLET_USER_AGENTS =  'ipad|android 3.0|xoom|sch-i800|playbook|tablet|kindle|honeycomb'
+
     def self.included(base)
       base.extend ClassMethods
     end
@@ -55,11 +60,13 @@ def has_mobile_fu(set_request_format = true)
         before_filter :set_request_format if set_request_format
 
         helper_method :is_mobile_device?
+        helper_method :is_tablet_device?
         helper_method :in_mobile_view?
+        helper_method :in_tablet_view?
         helper_method :is_device?
         helper_method :mobile_device
       end
-      
+
       # Add this to your controllers to prevent the mobile format from being set for specific actions
       #   class AwesomeController < ApplicationController
       #     has_no_mobile_fu_for :index
@@ -91,13 +98,25 @@ def force_mobile_format
         end
       end
 
+      # Forces the request format to be :tablet
+      def force_tablet_format
+        unless request.xhr?
+          request.format = :tablet
+          session[:tablet_view] = true if session[:tablet_view].nil?
+        end
+      end
+
       # Determines the request format based on whether the device is mobile or if
-      # the user has opted to use either the 'Standard' view or 'Mobile' view.
+      # the user has opted to use either the 'Standard' view or 'Mobile' view or
+      # 'Tablet' view.
 
       def set_mobile_format
         if !mobile_exempt? && is_mobile_device? && !request.xhr?
           request.format = session[:mobile_view] == false ? :html : :mobile
           session[:mobile_view] = true if session[:mobile_view].nil?
+        elsif !mobile_exempt? && is_tablet_device? && !request.xhr?
+          request.format = session[:tablet_view] == false ? :html : :tablet
+          session[:tablet_view] = true if session[:tablet_view].nil?
         end
       end
 
@@ -109,6 +128,14 @@ def in_mobile_view?
         request.format.to_sym == :mobile
       end
 
+      # Returns either true or false depending on whether or not the format of the
+      # request is either :tablet or not.
+
+      def in_tablet_view?
+        return false unless request.format
+        request.format.to_sym == :tablet
+      end
+
       # Returns either true or false depending on whether or not the user agent of
       # the device making the request is matched to a device in our regex.
 
@@ -116,6 +143,10 @@ def is_mobile_device?
         !!mobile_device
       end
 
+      def is_tablet_device?
+        request.user_agent.to_s.downcase =~ Regexp.new(ActionController::MobileFu::TABLET_USER_AGENTS)
+      end
+
       def mobile_device
         request.headers['X_MOBILE_DEVICE']
       end
@@ -126,10 +157,10 @@ def mobile_device
       def is_device?(type)
         request.user_agent.to_s.downcase.include? type.to_s.downcase
       end
-      
+
       # Returns true if current action isn't supposed to use mobile format
       # See #has_no_mobile_fu_for
-      
+
       def mobile_exempt?
         self.class.instance_variable_get("@mobile_exempt_actions").try(:include?, params[:action].to_sym)
       end
diff --git a/lib/mobile-fu/helper.rb b/lib/mobile-fu/helper.rb
index e314454..033ff82 100644
--- a/lib/mobile-fu/helper.rb
+++ b/lib/mobile-fu/helper.rb
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ def stylesheet_link_tag_with_mobilization(*sources)
       
       sources.each do |source|
         mobilized_sources << source
-
+        
         device_names.compact.each do |device_name|
           # support ERB and/or SCSS extensions (e.g., mobile.css.erb, mobile.css.scss.erb)
           possible_source = source.to_s.sub(/\.css.*$/, '') + "_#{device_name}"
-
+          
           mobilized_files = Dir.glob(File.join(stylesheets_dir, "#{possible_source}.css*")).map { |f| f.sub(stylesheets_dir, '') }
           mobilized_sources += mobilized_files.map { |f| f.sub(/\.css.*/, '') }
         end
       end
-
+      
       stylesheet_link_tag_without_mobilization *mobilized_sources
     end
   end