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Video Projector on a Chip?
Stile 65 writes "Cornell researchers have made a 0.2mm-squared mirror mounted on carbon fibers that can oscillate at 2.5KHz, 'caus[ing] a laser beam to scan across a range of up to 180 degrees.' These can be mounted on a chip, and in combination with lasers, arrays of such mirrors on a chip can be made into a video projector. From the article: ''"It would be an incredibly cheap display," [Cornell grad student Shahyaan] Desai said. And the entire device would be small enough to build into a cell phone to project an image on a wall."' This display is made possible because of the innovative use of carbon fiber instead of silicon in MEMS. Unlike a standard DMD, this type of device would have one mirror per scanline, not one mirror per pixel, allowing the chip to be much smaller."
Finally, the resolution of a cellphone VDU on a screen the size of a bedsheet! Amazing!
*phone rings*
*display activates*
Princess Leia: Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
so, in 5 years will princess leia send me a video message?
give a power point presentation to the other people on the bus!
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what kind of cell phone is going to have the power to do video projection
One powered by a Dell laptop battery.
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"Help me Kemo_by_the_kilo, you're my only hope is what your woman will say with your new prehensile penis!"
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Virus... Or feature?
Seriously, those folks need to get this out. There is nothing I would enjoy more than being able to watch a podcast of 24 on the bathroom wall / stall door whilst exercising the large veins in my forehead over last night's chili.
The applications are endless:
-projecting "kick me" signs on your buddy's back
-literally labeling people in bars as you approach them (your typical loser, desperate single guy, lush, the "come on, we're going" girl, designated driver, career drinker, future mayor of the drunk tank, the "you think that's bad, I..." guy, will puke, have puked, laughed so hard I peed a little, kinky, not really a girl, high maintenance, "forgot" my wedding ring, etc...
-projecting the definition of a 6-pack on my gut (among other body mods to various people...)
-showing movies on your wife's forhead so it appears that you are paying attention to her when she is saying...whatever it is that she says.
I'm in - let me know when it's selling for 1/2 price on ebay at 2am. I've got cable internet and I'm not afraid to wait until the last 3 seconds...punks.