Shove A Projector Inside Your Mobile Phone April 16, 2007

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Texas Instruments, the creators of the DLP projection technology used in most of the world’s new projectors, think there could a be a quid or two in mini-projectors for mobile phones. That would make it smaller than even the world’s smallest projector.

The company recently previewed a DLP Pico-Projector prototype to a few lucky industry sods, small enough to fit on the tip of your finger. Texas already has a pocket-projection technology out in the market, with products available from Toshiba, Mitsubishi and Samsung.

Researchers, Pacific Media Associates (PMA), thinks the pocket projector category (a bit bigger than this) to hit more than 1 million units by 2010.

The weenie projection tech is being touted for use in phones, digital cameras and MP3/video players. A camcorder with this in-built would be handy. Don’t expect to see anything real though until next year.-Martin Lynch

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