Video Projector on a Chip?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 23, 2006 @11:31AM from the new-annoying-cell-phone-gadgets dept.

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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Wow! by popeguilty · 2006-08-23 11:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Finally, the resolution of a cellphone VDU on a screen the size of a bedsheet! Amazing!
Incoming call... by Durrok · 2006-08-23 11:54 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:What about power? by syousef · 2006-08-23 12:16 · 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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Re:Prediction: by LindseyJ · 2006-08-23 12:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Virus... Or feature?