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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."

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  1. Wow! by popeguilty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, the resolution of a cellphone VDU on a screen the size of a bedsheet! Amazing!

  2. Incoming call... by Durrok · · Score: 4, Funny

    *phone rings*
    *display activates*
    Princess Leia: Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!

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  3. oblig. Star Wars Comment by kemo_by_the_kilo · · Score: 3, Funny

    so, in 5 years will princess leia send me a video message?

  4. Sweet, now I can by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    give a power point presentation to the other people on the bus!

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  5. Re:What about power? by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Re:Prediction: by LindseyJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Virus... Or feature?