World's Smallest Projector Set for Launch

by biverson | January 4, 2008 at 07:36 am

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This tiny projector (about the size of an iphone) is going to be breakthrough technology. That tiny screen with all your photos -- oh, I mean your cellphone, will become your projector. Speaking from the social network view of things, this will take the solitary out of lots of "keitai" (roughly translated, "things they carry") and create new kinds of parties and socialization. I can imagine artistic uses, too.

Dubbed SHOW, the lensless PicoP projector is designed for the home and business use, and uses tiny lasers to shoot a WVGA (848 by 480, roughly DVD resolution) image on virtually any surface that isn't a dark color or textured. It can even project onto curved and uneven surfaces. So, from a distance of two feet, it could project a two foot diagonal, full-color image on a white T-shirt. From five feet away, it could show a five-foot image on, say, a white wall or ceiling.