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Microsoft Skinput uses pico projectors for input

Yesterday I read about this and it really struck a note with me – Not only has this new microsoft powered pico projector technology got an awesome name “Skinput” but it also shows us a glimpse at possibly what tomorrow will hold in terms of integration of pico-projector’s into our everyday lives. Gone will be [...]

Texas Instruments slimming its pico projector for mobile’s

Last week it was announced in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress that Texas Instruments are working on even smaller pico projector DLP chips. The technology company (TXN) unveiled its latest digital light processor chip – smaller and slimmer and targetted solely at being embedded in mobile phones. Their latest DLP pico chip will enable [...]

New Pico Projectors for UK Feb 2010

CES over the other side of the pond featured more than a few new pico projectors. The market is growing you could say. But here in little old Britain we are often a few weeks/months behind the gadget trends, well some of them! Heres a quick roundup of the latest pico projector’s we have seen [...]

Samsung SPP400B LED Projector – Pico or Bigo?

After the question from a reader last week and in time for our roundup of the new pico’s available in the uk we thought we would take a look at a not so pico, microprojector. The samsung SPP 400B LED Projector is a 14.5 x 14.7 x 6.4 cm beast compared to most of the [...]

8 million pico projectors to ship in 2010 – Asia Optical – 1450% growth expected

Yesterday Asia Optical’s chairman reported they are expecting to up their shipments of pico projectors from 250,000 upwards inline with a global 8 million pico-projectors in 2010 and 20 million in 2011 – thats a 250% increase on 2010! Robert Lai, the chairman of Asia Optical told digiTimes about this expected huge surge in [...]

Highest Output Ability Red Laser Diode will hugely enhance Laser Pico Projectors

We missed this one – but on the 25th of January Mitsubishi Electric (TYO:6503) announced their launch of their new red laser diode (ML520G72) – the worlds highest output ability red laser diode. With a 638 nanometer wavelength this new laser diode is extremely efficient and is ideal for use in pico projector’s and other [...]

Sony to add Pico Projector’s to all compact digital camera’s?

Rumbles last week from DigiTimes and then the associated gadget media suggested that Sony want to match the other digital camera manufacturers (nikon S1000Pj pico camera) and produce digital compact camera’s with pico projector built into them, allowing for a bigger GUI and more sharing capacity to each digital camera. Sony has done a deal [...]