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Considering Cheaper Pico-Projectors As Standard Equipment On Cell Phones
An anonymous reader writes "Will pico-projectors become standard equipment on mobile phones, the same way that digital cameras have become? The jury is still out on user acceptance — after all, only four mobile phones use pico-projectors today — but if they get small and cheap enough, mobile phone makers are going to install them. There are four vendors today — Microvision, National Semiconductor, 3M and Texas Instruments — but only TI has design wins in cell phones already on the market. And at the recent Mobile World Congress, TI showed a smaller digital light processor (DLP) chip that fits inside even the slimmest mobile phones, and which it claims is cheap enough to become standard equipment. A lot of us never use the camera in our phones now — would you use a pico-projector if it was built into your phone?"
It needs to be a holographic projector, or don't bother.
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Somehow I don't think that a "pico-projector" is one trillionth the size of a regular projector. Asshole marketers.
a product of intelligent design?
sort of like putting a recreation and reproduction facility right next to a waste water treatment facility?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
It'd be great to be able to project onto a wall for a spur-of-the-moment code discussion, etc. It seems like every time I'm in a meeting & want to share an idea or code snippet, etc. with the group, it happens to be in an area without a projector. If we could have a picoprojector on the backside of my laptop's LCD, you could project from there whenever you need...
Before long, you'd be invited to damn few meetings. You might be on to something there...
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Wait, enjoyable with ice cubes and syrup? I'm confused.
It's kind of difficult to pretend to be working during meetings while actually watching internet porn on my phone if I'm watching it by projecting it life-size on a wall.
How about a wireless projecter, the size of a deck of cards, with built-in wireless USB and/or bluetooth? Then you can use it with nearly anything, the way wi-fi projectors work now.
Besides, if you're playing a video with your phone, what if you want to then take a phone call?
Then I guess you're fucked. GAME OVER MAN! You hear that screaming in the distance? That's people who tried to project and then somebody called. Let that be a lesson. DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU!
...or projecting the face of some Hollywood hottie onto that girl or guy you brought home from the bar after last call.
"Wow, my phone-flashlight really accentuates your eyes. Just try to hold still or it looks like you have two heads. What??? I mean, uh... Look, something shiny!"
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