Microvision to launch cellphone projector at CES |
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| Written by Simon Toat | |
| Wednesday, 02 January 2008 | |
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Microvision will unveil a prototype of its PDA-sized, fully self-contained, battery operated, full-color laser projector at the show. The projector, codenamed SHOW, connects directly to laptops, mobile phones, portable media players (PMPs), digital cameras and other mobile devices to project large, high-resolution images and video onto any surface. The images projected can range anywhere from 12 inches (30 cm) to 100 inches (2.5 m) in size depending upon the projection distance and are always in focus. The production version of the device is expected to offer approximately 2.5 hours of continuous battery life, sufficient to watch a full-length movie without a need for recharging.
The company said that SHOW can project a widescreen, WVGA (848 X 480
pixels), DVD quality image - offering a very different experience from
the tiny 2-inch display solutions available today on various portable
devices. Designed for viewing high-quality projected images in a
variety of controlled lighting environments, SHOW offers more than five
times the resolution compared with competing miniature projectors that
typically only offer QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels).
As
usual, there is the game of who's got the biggest television, with
Mitsibishi and Sony fighting it out to see who's got the bigger one.
Expect to see a 150-incher on show. Meanwhile there are still other
tellies that you can at least put in your front room without doing your
back in or have to demolish a wall in order to fit one in. Samsung
looks set to launch a 40-inch OLED TV that uses half the power of a
similar-sized LCD TV and is a fifth the thickness of an LCD TV. At
least you won't break your back fixing that on the wall. CES runs from January 7-10. |