The wonders of the internet make it easy for us to quickly gather data on almost any subject. Micro projector’s have been around as a concept for over a decade – about as long as google, the biggest of the search engines. But how popular have micro projector’s been with the general consuming public? Using google trends you can see how graphs and data on how much a search term is entered, allowing you to over time generate a graph which shows the rise (and sometimes falls) of a search term.

As you can see from this graph no real search volume for the term kicked off until late 2007 / early 2008 when a spike of traffic, perhaps a rumble of 3m or another manufacturer designing concepts for a mass market micro projector. After that the term dropped and was almost forgotten in the eyes of google until the 3rd quarter of 2008 (the release of some early micro projector’s to online retailers etc), quickly jumping up higher than it had ever been before – and since then it has only gone up! It will be interesting to see how the graph has developed in say another 12 months, with my xmas predictions on micro projectors I wouldnt be suprised if it doubles or triples in the year 2010.

It also allows you to see the countries in which this search term is most popular, as to be expected the western world is high up there for micro projectors (and similar phrases like pico projectors) – the US and UK being the largest. Australia is the next biggest searcher for micro projector’s – followed by Canada and Germany. I should think in time more of europe will feature in this list. In 12 months we will relook at this statistics and see how the micro projector industry has grown, so bookmark us now or subscribe to our tech feed if you havent yet (rss icon top right!)