Cell Phone with Built-in Projector

karvind writes "Siemens researchers have developed a cell phone featuring a built-in projector system. A laboratory model was presented at CeBIT 2005 in Hanover. The system makes it possible to project a complete keypad or display onto a surface. With a special pen, users can write on the virtual keypad and operate the phone's functions. Other projection keyboard concepts can be found here and here"

Comments

That's not a projector.

[VJTod]

I want a 1280x1024 projector. They're just projecting a keyboard.

Re:That's not a projector.

[Lispy]

and I want a small Princess Leia on my desk: "Help me Obi-Wan Keinobi, you're our only hope..."

Re:That's not a projector.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just don't cross the beams. Trust me, it will be bad.

Giant Keyboard

[Anonymous Coward]

How far does this thing project? Can I set it up across the room and have giant keyboard that I can jump around on, like in Big?

Re:Giant Keyboard

[Hannah E. Davis]

Let's hope not...

Think about it: a keyboard you can jump on, plus long and annoying ringtones. Do we really need a cellphone version of DDR?

Stupid idea..

[Anonymous Coward]

This has got to be the stupidest cell phone idea of the year!

So you'd have to hold the rather klungy cellphone still near a suitable surface and plug the projected keyboard with a thick bluetooth pen? Why not just use morse code by panging your head agaist the wall?

Bluetooth foldable keyboard is a much better choice.

Re:too clunky...

[Anonymous Coward]

TFA claims: "At first glance, the mobile phone looks exactly like a conventional cell phone."

...but I disagree. It looks big and clunky

TFA didn't say what era the conventional cell phone was from...

New excuse

[Solder Fumes]

If I project this onto my lap, maybe I'll get fewer odd looks on the airplane.

Yeah, right

[roman_mir]

First thought: ta da ta da ta da ta da ta da ta da ta da ta da - Batmaaaaaan. Communicate with symbols projected into the sky.

Second though: wow, I will have to walk around with two suitcases full of batteries.

no dice.

Re:advantage to typing on hard surfaces

[LiquidCoooled]

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Projecting Selma

[AtariAmarok]

So, do you project her in full 5'9" size? Does the projecter belch Laramie smoke to make the virtual experience more real? There are unshaven bikini-clad images available, too.

Re:hard to type

[Anonymous Coward]

But imagine laying in bed and have your phone ring and project the Caller-ID info onto your wall or ceiling so you would/wouldn't have to get out of bed.

I just press the silence button.

Re:Speech recognition?

[AndroidCat]

As opposed to "tea, earl grey, hot".

Yeah, what's the point of that? It'll just deliver a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. (Or it'll just get it completely wrong and connect you with El Tigré Hutt.)

Minesweeper anyone?

[__aaclcg7560]

If your cell phone can project a game of Minesweeper onto the bathroom wall...

PHB: Why are you spending so much time in the bathroom?

Peon: Uh... none of your business.

PHB: Why were you tapping on the stall walls for?

Peon: If you were stuck up like me, you're be tapping the walls too.

PHB: Why did you yell "You bastard!" when I walked by?

Peon: Hey! Can't a guy take a difficult dump around her?

PHB: Not in this company!

i want a cell phone with a built in death ray

[multiplexo]

projectors, who's going to use that? But a death ray! That would be cool! Of course I also want to be the only person allowed to have a cell phone with a built in death ray because the rest of you can't be trusted.

Re:Speech recognition?

[x2A]

Try calling someone who's right next to you.

I wouldn't say lag was the problem if I was calling someone who was right next to me.

-2A