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Matchbox Sized Color Projectors?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.

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.

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  1. Now if only.... by penguinrenegade · · Score: 3, Funny

    They made the projectors to fit inside of a Matchbox car!!!

  2. Vaporware! by jonnylawUSA · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like these guys will be up for the 2004 Wired Vaporware awards.

    1. Re:Vaporware! by jackb_guppy · · Score: 3, Funny

      It can not be Vaporware, when it is about Photon Vacuum.

      Vapor can not exist in Vacuum.

  3. website down by Andreas(R) · · Score: 5, Funny
    The website is slashdotted, here's a screenshot of the projector:


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  4. Won't be long. by blair1q · · Score: 3, Funny


    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!"

  5. This + Cameraphone by Apreche · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Re:making a big screen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now, if lots of these min-projectors could be put together in a matrix

    Surely you meant:

    Now, if lots of these min-projectors could be put together in a beowulf cluster ...

  7. What technology? by arsenix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they sure they didn't mean photon vapor? I hear they are working on fusion as well...

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  8. Look at a calendar by Mononoke · · Score: 4, Funny
    April 1 is still weeks away.

    Someone jumped the gun here.

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  9. Re:Power Consumption by Baumi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every electric and electronic appliance should go for that goal.

    I don't know - my matchbox-sized fridge isn't selling too well...

    Jens

  10. Re:Dream on! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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. ;)

  11. Re:Dream on! by stienman · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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