The Microprojector market is still hotting up, with price wars starting to rear their ugly heads! A great sign for consumers though as the micro projector companys all aim for below the £250 mark – a very cheap introduction price for such a neat and innovative gadget. Currently the prices for the top 4 most [...]

Weighing in at just 142 grams the latest pico projector to fly out of japan is the Thanko’s (What a great company name!) MiniJEC1. While we think all of these microprojector producers should take a leaf out of some of their better named rivals naming conventions book the thanko MiniJEC1 does look nicely different in [...]

Since the inception of this blog @ microprojector 5.co.uk (we arent even that old!) there is a striking increase in the number of applications of the micro-projector. As many people have said the concept of a small gadget that produces a big video output on any near by surface is definately not a new idea, [...]

You can now get your hands on a Optoma Apple iPod Connection Kit, it even comes with a dock! – this great step forward means you can now play video from your ipod with a micro projector! We looked into micro projector cables a few weeks ago at which point there was no real great [...]

Here at micro projector 5.co.uk we are always asking the question – is this micro projector micro enough? is it classed as a micro or pico projector and usually the question comes to a comparison against other micro projectors in size and the infamous “will it fit in my hand” test to see if the [...]

Until the big producers of pico projectors ( micro projector’s ) get the resolution and contrast ratio to a higher standard the critics do have quite a strong point against them being used in a mainstream way. Micro-projector’s are a little weak at this point. They do however work well if the lighting is right [...]

Doing the circuits on gadget blogs the Evolution R1 micro projector from beambox was quite a surprise for me to come across, while this picture doesnt seem to do it justice its not a hugely pretty box, despite being heralded as a “sexy” micro projector on the manufacturers website.  Beambox appear to be a uk [...]