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The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived
mallumax writes "David Pogue of New York Times has reviewed the Pico, which is a pocket projector from Optoma. The review is quite entertaining (Pogue projects the images on to a plane's ceiling, leaving passengers baffled) and detailed. The highlights are: It is a pocket-sized projector which runs on batteries and can project images and videos from a variety of sources like iPhone, iPod and DVD players with a 480x320px resolution, with a maximum screen size of 65 inches at 8.5 feet. It uses a non-replaceable 10,000 hour LED lamp and a DLP chip from Texas Instruments. The battery lasts for 90 minutes and can be recharged through USB or with its own power cord. The device weighs 115g and comes with an inbuilt speaker which is practically useless. If you want one, it will set you back by $430."
Angus Young has already said he wants one. Something about it having its very own power chord, I guess.
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It's an LED with an anticipated life of 20,000 hours. That's, like, a war-crime's amount of PowerPoint.
Can 'War Crime' be a unit of measurement for terribleness and quantity?
It sure is replaceable! Only $430!
Mod parent idiot. First, it's a DLP projector, not an LCD projector. Secondly, it has a rated lifespan of 10,000 hours. That's more than a complete year of life, or 13 years at 2 hours a day. Probably more than you'll actually want to use this projector.
Also, while I'm boarding on flamebait, I'd like to point and laugh at the person who replied to me a couple of days ago when I posted about this claiming this device didn't exist.
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$430 to keep pens from leaking onto my shirt? No thanks...
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You had me until that part. Sorry, bro, no brownie points for you.
Then he spent some quality time with the Air Marshall and DHS ...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Poor form sir, poor form. What good is a paranoid rant without some mention of jew bankers, the international money cartel, black helicopters, and the plan to turn Mississippi into an al-quaeda training camp?
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"The people on the plane were baffled when they saw *porn* on the ceiling . ." and you thought cell phones were annoying when they came out . .
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While vi became vim, this is a huge jump in functionality for Pico
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I must be old. I read the title as "Pocket-protector"
"Pocket projector."
I can't believe no one made this pun before now.
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7 years! that isnt enough time. We will hardly be able to cover the new TPS Coversheets;
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And yet there is no more redundant modifier on the great-grandparent post. You sir, are wrong.
Who cares if the lamp is non-replaceable (not an LCD, anyway).
What is a pocket protector doing with a lamp anyway? I've been ridiculed enough for using one without a lamp, why would I want to light it up and draw even more attention to it?
Is this some new kind of nerd bling?
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Now you'll be able to tell the geeks, because they will be the ones with the pocket-projectors.
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Yes, and I should also point out it's cheaper as well.
Even better, imagine making short clips of those creepy pale black-eyed children from Japanese horror movies and projecting them at random...
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The XBOX version or the PC version?
What's the average lifespan of a shark, cause I'd hate to need to replace a burnt out laser on one of those frickin' things.
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