Turn your phone into a projector
Mobile devices can store pictures and videos, but viewing them on such a small screen isn’t ideal. Microvision, based in Redmond, WA, hopes to solve this problem with a microprojector the company plans to reveal at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The system, composed of semiconductor lasers and a tiny mirror, will be small enough to integrate into a phone or an iPod, says Randy Sprague, chief engineer at Microvision.
Right now there is great interest in putting projectors in phones. Indeed, major phone manufacturer Nokia is “looking at” different technologies to integrate projectors into mobile devices (see “The Future of Cell Phones“). As the fabrication technology used to make the components of these projectors matures, it is becoming more economically feasible to create a projector small enough to fit into a handheld device, says Microvision’s Sprague.
So you like the idea of watching TV or movies on your MP4 player or cell phone, but the screens are just too small for you to make an accurate call on instant replay, especially if your next paycheck is on the line with the game’s outcome. All that could change with new technology from Microvision, which claims to have built the world’s smallest projector.
(Credit: Microvision)
The company’s “Pico Projector,” which is planned for release at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, is designed to be embedded in handheld products to project “photos, videos, movies and TV from personal mobile devices onto virtually any surface.” Microvision, which makes such products as handheld scanners and wearable displays, says the resulting images would be “extremely sharp and vivid” whether projected to be the size of a laptop screen or a large TV. That sounds a tad like company hype, but this technology would still be more practical than lugging around your 60-inch plasma.
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