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Countertop Video Projector?

Posted by Cliff on from the who-needs-monitors dept.

bcorrigan78 asks: "After reading the recent Slashdot post regarding Microsoft's perfect home, I got to wondering if there was a way to build or buy a counter-top projector like the one pictured in the article here. It looks like it might be some kind of laser scanning low-res projector? Anyone seen anything like this?"

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  1. Build your own projector. by More+Karma+Than+God · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's some links to previous Slashdot articles.

    Homebrew Projectors

    Light Sources

    Enjoy!

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  2. Why not just throw out your counter space? by splattertrousers · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you are projecting a recipe on the counter, then you can no longer use the counter. Don't tell me you'll be able to read the recipe if it's being projected onto clumps of flour, a box of eggs, a jar of sugar, a head of lettuce and a bottle of beer.

    Perhaps a much easier and usable solution would be to put an LCD in the wall behind said counter, or in the door of the cabinet above said counter.

    Of course, it wouldn't be very Microsoft-y, but you could hire someone to come into your kitchen from time to time, kick you out for a few minutes and remove the entire contents, requiring you to spend the rest of the day re-installing your kitchen. It would be great fun for people who don't like to cook (kind of like how Windows is great fun for people who don't actually want to use their computers to do work).

    (Hmm... I wonder why I felt like bashing Microsoft so much this morning. Maybe the eggs I put in my lettuce-and-beer-cookies last night were bad.)