Tuesday, March 27th 2007
TI Demonstrates Cell Phone Projector
Texas Instruments is on the verge of successfully releasing its new "pico" projector which should be small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, allowing users to project DVD quality movies. Although the phone itself was a fake, TI successfully demonstrated the technology with a real projector at CES (but no pictures were allowed then) and there there is now some more information about it. It contains three lasers, a DLP chip and a power supply, coming in at a mere 1.5" long, however TI has not confirmed when this technology will be made available to firms for use in cell phones. Although this isn't the first idea of a cell phone projector, it's the most convincing prototype yet and certainly has the potential to be integrated into phones of the future.
Source:
CNET
9 Comments on TI Demonstrates Cell Phone Projector
but i wonder just how much power this thing will eat up, and wether any phone battery would be capable of powering it for any lenghty period of time...
and i think that most people who are projecting with their cell phone will be able to plug it in while doing so (i'm thinking laptop + projector replacement in the ultra small form of a cell phone)
But seriously give me a projector the size of my laptop power supply and I'll be thrilled.