Toys are often the last realm of products to recieve innovations, noteable vtech style kids laptops are quite far behind the times compared to realistic real use laptops from a corporate gadget environment. This has always been the case but the toy industry is catching up, despite this lag in development time. Firstly there was the “computer games projector” a few years ago – offering to bridge the gap between expensive home theatre projectors and gaming solutions, the downfall – while short term was that these projectors had very low resolution, basically the bare minimum for game viewing.

Microprojectors are just about getting this treatment by the toy industry now, with such kids micro projector’s released as the Senario Torpedo micro projector, senario mega-vu , Optima GT-7000 and the US Hansbro ZoomBox. These are all cheap, gaming/kid targeted pico projectors. Thats almost as many as in the professional micro projector market. We will do a quick rundown of these 4 kids micro projector’s tommorow but they all cost around/under the  £200/$300 mark and basically all offer the same thing – a low low resolution affordable toy for a younger user. Resolutions are lower than most other micro projectors and the cases and designs are a little more sturdy. Some of these childrens micro projector’s feature built in speakers of varying quality, and one has a built in cd / dvd player – something that may be more useful for children as apose to SD card inputs.