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Miniature Video Projector for iPhone and iPod

Tuesday November 11, 2008 12:29 am PST by Arnold Kim

Engadget reports that Texas Instruments' DLP Pico Projector will launch on December 1st for sale in Apple Stores in Japan. The miniature projector allows you to display a 60-inch 480x320 video image from up to 8.5 feet away.

David Pogue took an early look at the device and was impressed:

Youd have to be a jaded gizmophile indeed not to be impressed the first time you turn on this tiny, shiny black box. In the center of the short end, theres a very bright light-emitting-diode lamp. Inside, theres a miniaturized Texas Instruments digital-light-processing (D.L.P.) chip, similar in principle to the ones that drive some full-size HDTV sets. Together, they produce an astonishingly bright, clear, vivid video or still image. Thats right -- from a projector youve pulled from your jeans pocket.

No word on when the projector will be available in the U.S. It will retail for about U.S. $511 in Japan.
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Rybold
Posted: 43 months ago
Awesome! :eek: :D

step1: download video DVDs onto iPhone
step2: project DVDs and Youtube onto a white wall anywhere and everywhere you may be.

Quoting the article: "That’s right -- from a projector you’ve pulled from your jeans pocket." :D

Just imagine the possibilities: movies, Youtube, video games, sharing picture albums with a group of friends, browsing the web without having to "resize" the page, and with the App Store, the possibilities are limitless ... Powerpoint and streaming television in the future?

I'D LIKE TO SEE A BLACKBERRY DO THAT!!! AHA!!!

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equlizer
Posted: 43 months ago
but............Will it be any different than what the cable can already do? (which isnt much)

I want to display more than just movies and pics:mad:
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FrankieTDouglas
Posted: 43 months ago
Does it work like a mirrored display? I want one.
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attila
Posted: 43 months ago

but............Will it be any different than what the cable can already do? (which isnt much)

I want to display more than just movies and pics:mad:


the iPhone can already do anything! What do you want to do? A universal dock with remote?

(why does the universal dock suck so much on the iPhone? you can't navigate menues....)
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ArtOfWarfare
Posted: 43 months ago
The price is a bit on the high side... maybe I'll get one refurbished later on...
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Elloise
Posted: 43 months ago
I love it.
Make it wireless.
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c-Row
Posted: 43 months ago

I love it.
Make it wireless.


Now that would totally rock!
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lftrghtparadigm
Posted: 43 months ago

The price is a bit on the high side... maybe I'll get one refurbished later on...


LOL its not even for sale or planned to be for sale in the U.S. and you're talking about a refurb. :p silliness

That is one really really really really cool gadget. A must have for serious iPhone/iPod touch media hounds. But whatever happened to this one??

http://www.popsci.com/gear-%2526-gadgets/article/2008-09/3m-launches-first-pocket-projector
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lftrghtparadigm
Posted: 43 months ago
I predict with much confidence that we'll see a projector built in to future iPhone/iPod models, starting with the 4th generation. Not the Macworld/'09 iPhone, but the one after that.
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Jowl
Posted: 43 months ago
So thats a mini projector and a TV Tuner that the Japanese are getting for the iPhone.

Not fair, I want them too *stamps feet* :D
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