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World's Smallest Projector

Posted by samzenpus on from the there-are-no-small-roles dept.

SkinnyGuy writes "Mixed into all of PCMag's CES preview coverage is an interesting story about a projector that's no bigger than an iPod. An early version showed up at last year's CES, but some of the guts weren't inside the small body. Now they are. It uses lasers to project the image. Really fascinating, futuristic stuff."

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  1. Laptops by ianare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This would be awesome for an ultra-portable laptop: just a keyboard without the screen, just project onto any wall ... or use a very light roll-up screen.

    1. Re:Laptops by ZJVavrek · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Or one of those laser keyboards. Like this. http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ Get some reasonably powerful device, add the two of those and maybe some kind of location sensing finger ring for a mouse... voilà, now you have a justifiable reason for Linux on your cell phone. Not that you needed one.

  2. Good by DerWulf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Very cool product. The name sucks though. Google finds 2.560.000.000 hits for "SHOW".

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  3. Re:This Isn't Going to be Good for the Community by jacquesm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think your power calculations for skywriting are off by several orders of magnitude. That sort of laser is best not used near anything combustible either, not unless you want it to combust that is :)

    A friend of mine who pioneered lasers in pop music (for Genesis in the Peter Gabriel days) once turned down a proposal to implement this because of the limited range of conditions when it would operate and the enormous power levels required, it's a bit of a difference to project something on a wall 5' away from you vs on a semi-transparant medium several hundred meters away. Of course you don't need to take my word for it, or you may have meant your original post in a sarcastic way (but that's hard to tell here sometimes).

    a 50 mW laser will carray a good distance as long as you don't start scanning it, then it quickly becomes useless.

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  4. Re:Would be great for multi touch touchscreen by apt142 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At $200-$300 my first thought was, could this replace my TV set? I'd just need a tuner, which I could get for my computer. It sure would be nice to reduce all of my entertainment equipment to one computer, a speaker system and an iPod sized projector.

    The resolution isn't what I would like, especially if I wanted to hook it up to my computer. But, I'm sure that'll improve in future versions.

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