It may have slipped by a few peoples radar’s but on the 1st of December Vodafone announced that they have taken on the MicroVision ShowWX in Spain. This is the second service provider to strike a deal with Microvision (first Uniden and Australia) and without a doubt means good things for both Microvision Stock (MVIS [...]
We talk a lot about the current pico projector’s out here on microProjector5, but occasionally we like to sit back and take a wild stab at where we think the micro projector market is going- both as a mass market consumer product and more broadly speaking as a technology in a fast developing world. So [...]
As the big companies fight it out in research and development labs across the world a war brews over the horizon. Traditional LCD displays have been around for a long time, relatively speaking and have more than a foothold over plasma at this point. OLED is the new boy who has already made a good [...]
Now that title may be a mouthful but Ericsson are hoping to bring this to the technology table. Quite a suprising announcement from Ericsson shows that they are developing a “spider pc” – a tiny computer that will fit within your pocket, using a projected keyboard and display (pico projector based) it can effectively be [...]
OLED is not new new technology, it is relatively new but its been around a few years now – at least in tv’s and small flatscreens. The benifits of OLED over standard liquid crystal or plasma are several fold, including more efficient power use (increasingly an important factor in electronics purchases), better resolutions, better picture [...]
Everyone knows micro projectors (pico projectors) are awesome, its quite undeniable that something that will fit in your pocket but project a 50 inch screen using just batteries and a video source is cool. But the jury is still out on multi touch environments. With recent idea’s like the 10/GUI concept of a multi-touch operating [...]
Most of the micro projector’s that are currently for sale are in one way “wireless” – most will run from batteries, with video coming from an SD card or a mobile phone, ipod, iphone or netbook / laptop – but this will only last so long (currently some of the better micro projector batteries last [...]
