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Matchbox Sized Color Projectors?
Justin Nolan sent in a very brief link about
ultra small projectors which says
"Upstream Engineering is willing to provide miniature color video projectors for use with portable video player, travel TV, laptops and handhelds next year. Upstream's patented technology, called Photon Vacuum, maximizes the amount of photons sent to the target from the light source in a minimum space and allows the creation of devices free of a variety of components currently used in projectors that unnecessarily waste energy. Photon Vacuum enables the smallest projector designs in the world, ultimately to a size of matchbox. The company says is going to push the power consumption of the whole device ultimately to below 4 watts while still gaining a travel-TV sized color projection" You can also read Upstream's website for almost as little information.
They made the projectors to fit inside of a Matchbox car!!!
Sounds like these guys will be up for the 2004 Wired Vaporware awards.
Pretty soon, when you fly on an airplane, every time someone leans back their seat you'll hear the person behind them whine "hey! you're keystoning my screen, man!"
Put one of these in a cameraphone. You'll soon have people giving slideshows of the pictures they took on vacation straight from the phone. oy.
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Now, if lots of these min-projectors could be put together in a beowulf cluster ...
Are they sure they didn't mean photon vapor? I hear they are working on fusion as well...
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take it on a plane that still uses 'large screen at the front' and show your own movies
following a bus at night- project it on the rear of the bus, drive safely and watch a movie/tv (dear, your are getting to close to the screen)
put one on the rear of your motorcycle- pointed at your jacket, for various phrases to roll through-- should realy confuse someone somewhere..
inverted peeping tom- sneak around vidding porn into peoples houses-think what happened when laser pointers first came out- then multiply X the number of porn movies ever made
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Someone jumped the gun here.
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Every electric and electronic appliance should go for that goal.
I don't know - my matchbox-sized fridge isn't selling too well...
Jens
Image how small the remote control will be ...
They talk about a "photon vacuum" but all is see is an information vacuum and a product vacuum. There is no there there.
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Upstream Engineering is willing to provide miniature color video projectors...
Willing to provide???
Infinium is willing to provide Hard OCP a lawsuit. Television networks are willing to provide good entertainment. The government is willing to provide conclusive evidence of foreign WMD programs.
A lot of people are willing to provide things -doesnt mean that it will happen.
I think someone should be willing to provide Upstream an alternative to Babelfish.
Only 4 Watts of power couldn't produce a luminous image? Why not look at the output from a 4 Watt laser?
;)
You could do it twice... once per eye.
Upstream Engineering is willing to provide miniature color video projectors for use with portable video player, travel TV, laptops and handhelds next year.
Yeah, most companies would keep this kind of tech to themselves, to impress their friends!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
"Why not look at the output from a 4 Watt laser? ;)"
You could do it twice... once per eye.
You know, I think he might have a hard time aiming the laser for the second try with a hole through his head. Just a thought.
-Adam
> Every electric and electronic appliance should go for that goal.
I don't know - my matchbox-sized fridge isn't selling too well...
Finally, a fridge that Ken can keep his beer cold with.
Who needs a demanding, anorexic bitch like Barbie when you have cold beer.
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