Using a laptop with your micro projector is sort of the simplest way, as they are both usually built for mobility and size it means you can take the combo anywhere and project whatever you need onto whatever surface is available. This is why the recent development of netbook technology is so apt for combining with micro projectors. As laptops get smaller but maintain the technological capacity for displaying film quality video, playing computer games and outputting to vga/digital graphics it opens up the combo market completely.

Having the capacity to organise what to project using a netbook in one palm and having the projector to project that in the other hand is something we can see all trades from estate agents/real estate sellers to building constructors taking advantage of, imagine going to a customer with the netbook/micro projector combo rather than a paper booklet? It will give that extra professional edge that might win the contract, something that is becoming ever more critical in these economical concious times.

Expect to see the net-book & handheld projector combo’s for sale from all major technology vendors, perhaps in a few years they may even provide a netbook that has a built in micro projector, that after all would be the ultimate in mobile projection.