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Texas Instruments Pico Projector

In a move that will make business travelers and geeks alike squeal with delight, Texas Instruments, maker of fine calculators, has managed to engineer a DLP projector so small that it can fit into a cell phone without trouble. The Pico projector is only 1.3 inches long, and puts out DVD-quality images in wide-screen TV resolutions from a lens small enough to replace the camera on your phone, or even be added next to it.

Using this kind of technology, displayable movies and videos on the go could become the norm, and business travelers could keep presentations on their phones or have them sent to their phones remotely and simply use the phone and existing mobile networks to send and retrieve presentations and videos. No pricing or release information is available yet, or even iwhether Texas Instruments plans to go commercial with the invention, but we can only hope.

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Posted by: FrankKF
April 10, 2007 3:29 PM

TI's Pocket-Size Pico Projector...
an interesting product in, both, business and personal uses. In business it promises small group presentation potenial ... for personal uses digital photo shows, movies. ALL of them for modest sized projected image size. Of course, color quality and 30FPS performance need to be better understood.

NOW if TI were to add Bluetooth plus a strap-on battery for 120 minutes of play ... I'd be standing in line to get one. A very attractive add-on for my HP iPAQ hx4705.


Posted by: ilham
October 22, 2008 3:11 AM

Great great idea and invention.No more bad surprises just before presentation.Self equipement,small and transportable?I will take it as soon as it gets in the market


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