Microvision today announced that it will unveil at CES an ultra-miniature full-color digital projection display approximately the size of a Thin Mint candy, designed to be embedded into handheld electronic devices such as cellphones, PDAs, or multimedia handhelds.
While having the ability to play videos on your cellphone is cool, who really wants to watch anything longer than a few seconds of video on such a tiny screen? Being able to project the image onto a nearby surface, such as a wall, whiteboard, desktop or your friend’s face, would make it much more watchable and easy to show to others.
While there’s no pricing or availability yet — this is just a prototype, after all — I’m sure cellphone manufacturers would love to add this to their high-end handsets, and you can be sure it won’t be cheap. And as soon as it hits the market and suddenly consumers are able to show their torrented TV shows with everyone around them, expect a wave of MPAA lawsuits to ensue.
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CES 2007: Microvision unveiling mini projector at Ministry of Tech | The Best of Tech
Jan 4, 2007 at 6:05 pm
[...] September, we heard about how researchers in Germany developed a super mini video projector. Now, Microvision is showing us their version of a mini projector. These very small projectors will be ofdemand for mobile devices like PDAs, mobile phones and even laptops. The one above is being compared to a thin chocolate mint (mmm) and is indeed tiny, but I think the German one is a tad Via Uber-Review Technorati Tags: Displays,mobile [...]
» Microproiettore nel cellulare e nel pda! Geekissimo
Jan 4, 2007 at 9:04 pm
[...] Le potenzialità di questo “big screen experience†sono elevatissime, all’interno racchiude un dispositivo di proiezione ” Integrated Photonics Module (IPM)”. Inoltre giurano che la proiezione non sarà sgranata e avrà un eccellente definizione da qualsiasi distanza con messa a fuoco automatizzata. Ancora è un prototipo ma la Motorola come potete vedere dalla foto sopra sembra gia aver siglato un accordo per un grosso quantitativo di questi incredibili micro proiettori. Integrated Photonics Module (IPM). [Fonte Uberreview] [...]
» Microproiettore nel cellulare e nel pda! Geekissimo
Jan 4, 2007 at 9:04 pm
[...] Le potenzialità di questo “big screen experience†sono elevatissime, all’interno racchiude un dispositivo di proiezione ” Integrated Photonics Module (IPM)”. Inoltre giurano che la proiezione non sarà sgranata e avrà un eccellente definizione da qualsiasi distanza con messa a fuoco automatizzata. Ancora è un prototipo ma la Motorola come potete vedere dalla foto sopra sembra gia aver siglato un accordo per un grosso quantitativo di questi incredibili micro proiettori. Integrated Photonics Module (IPM). [Fonte Uberreview] [...]
Proyector en un movil, PDA, laptop o UMPC at TecnoSquad.com
Jan 4, 2007 at 10:51 pm
[...] Fuentes: Gizmodo, überreview y Microvision [...]
Jan 5, 2007 at 12:08 pm
The German researchers at Frauhnhofer Institute helped Microvision with engineering this PicoProjector. They are partners.
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Jan 5, 2007 at 2:32 pm
[...] [Via Uber-Review]” [...]
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Jan 5, 2007 at 4:49 pm
[...] Fonte: The Uber-Review. [...]
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Jan 6, 2007 at 5:13 am
[...] [Via Uber-Review] [...]
Coolness Roundup » Blog Archive » Rapid-Fire Roundup of Cool Products for January 05, 2007
Jan 6, 2007 at 3:20 pm
[...] Microvision Pico Projector Microvision has unveiled the Pico Projector, a tiny digital display device that’s about the size of a stack of a dollar”s worth of quarters and is destined for handheld devices such as cell phones, PDAs and media players. Place that cellphone near a white wall, start up the video, and you have yourself an instant mini-theater. [...]
imunderpressure » Microvision unveils tiny projector for mobile devices
Jan 10, 2007 at 1:19 am
[...] [Via Uber-Review]†[...]
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Jan 12, 2007 at 7:22 am
[...] Tiny digital projector [...]
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Oct 1, 2007 at 1:40 pm
[...] via UberReview [...]
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