State of Syn is a motion comic webseries created by Smokebomb Entertainment, starring Jewel Staite and David Hewlett.
[1] State of Syn won an IAWTV award in January 2014 for Best Interactive Experience.
[3] The show follows Annika Drake (Staite) and her friends who, following the unexplained death of her father, are pulled into a twisted mystery surrounding his former company, emerging tech giant Psylo5ense.
Now run by her father's former business partner Aslin Kane (Hewlett), Psylo5ense is manufacturing a highly addictive new sensory experience called Vibe—a digital technology simulating a neurological condition called synesthesia—which is poised to become the new opiate of the masses.
Annika digs deeper to uncover the truth but finds herself learning some very disturbing secrets.