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 [...]

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 shipments [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Digitimes yesterday reported the fact that mobile phone handset vendors might be easing off the idea of including embedded pico projector’s into their handsets. This news comes from the realisation that people would not really use the picoprojector part of the phone as they expected, because largely people do not want to share publicly (one [...]

Big rumours swept a few sites over the last few days that before the summer is out HP are going to launch a pico projector enabled laptop, its only rumours as far as we can check so far but what a rumour! The idea has been floating around for a while, combining the tiny embedded [...]

Another pico that popped up its small little gadget head at CES 2010 was the new Samsung pico projector. The last samsung pico – the samsung mbp200 seems almost like a distant memory now, being one of the first pico projectors to hit the mainstream around the time of the original 3M microprojector the Mpro110. [...]