diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 488ca40..1f52301 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "termion"
-version = "1.1.0"
+version = "1.1.1"
 authors = ["ticki <Ticki@users.noreply.github.com>"]
 description = "A bindless library for manipulating terminals."
 repository = "https://github.com/ticki/termion"
diff --git a/src/async.rs b/src/async.rs
index ed323dc..a7ec891 100644
--- a/src/async.rs
+++ b/src/async.rs
@@ -2,20 +2,23 @@ use std::io::{self, Read};
 use std::sync::mpsc;
 use std::thread;
 
-/// Construct an asynchronous handle to the standard input.
+use tty;
+
+/// Construct an asynchronous handle to the TTY standard input.
 ///
 /// This allows you to read from standard input _without blocking_ the current thread.
 /// Specifically, it works by firing up another thread to handle the event stream, which will then
 /// be buffered in a mpsc queue, which will eventually be read by the current thread.
 ///
-/// Note that this will acquire the Mutex lock on the standard input, making all future stdin
-/// construction hang the program until the reader is dropped.
+/// This will not read the piped standard input, but rather read from the TTY device, since reading
+/// asyncronized from piped input would rarely make sense. In other words, if you pipe standard
+/// output from another process, it won't be reflected in the stream returned by this function, as
+/// this represents the TTY device, and not the piped standard input.
 pub fn async_stdin() -> AsyncReader {
     let (send, recv) = mpsc::channel();
 
     thread::spawn(move || {
-        let stdin = io::stdin();
-        for i in stdin.lock().bytes() {
+        for i in tty::get_tty().unwrap().bytes() {
             if send.send(i).is_err() {
                 return;
             }
@@ -36,6 +39,8 @@ pub struct AsyncReader {
     recv: mpsc::Receiver<io::Result<u8>>,
 }
 
+// FIXME: Allow constructing an async reader from an arbitrary stream.
+
 impl Read for AsyncReader {
     /// Read from the byte stream.
     ///