Mar 12 2007
The possibilities of anytime anywhere projectable pocket projectors
The MIT Technology Review recently had an interesting article on the state of pocket projection devices. Companies like Microvision have developed working prototypes of the Pico Projector, which is an Integrated Photonics Module that is embeddable into a cell phone or similarly-sized device. The Pico Projector enables large sized projections from the mobile phone device onto any logical surface. Other than the usual applications of video and TV streaming (Mobile TV has already debuted in Korea - in mid 2006, they had 550000 Mobile TV users), Pocket Projectors open up several other possibilities for social interations, personal sharing, and group activity. Imagine taking a nice clip of the Grand Canyon or the Pyramids in Egpyt, and projecting them into any ol’ wall in your home for your city slicker cousins. Imagine making Powerpoint presentations at your workplace without the stress and anxiety of clunky and unreliable corporate projectors.
Another alternate idea of mobile phones being able to connect and project anywhere, upto any size is in this blog post which hypothesizes that mobile phones could communicate through common protocols to a variety of projection systems.
Now what would be *really* cool if someone could project from any pocket device into a holographic display instead of using a flat walled surface. I hope the holograms look better than Darth Sidious in Star Wars and Arnold’s various sci-fi hits and misses…
Interesting, and useful, perhaps could be a revolution in coming for the telecom and television convergence…
Handy…ideal for anywhere any time presentation….
is it something like remotely controling the house from mobile using GPRS…..