If you’ve ever wanted to use your iPhone as a projector, but are too cheap to shell out for a pico-projector like the AAXA P1, perhaps this DIY system is for you. What you gain in price, you lose in flexibility, however; the system uses 35 individual laser pointers to recreate any bitmap font.
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Sanyo showed off a pretty impressive piece of technology in Japan today with their latest prototype projector. This projector is capable of full HD images at 16:9 and 1080p. But that’s not the cool part. What’s cool is this projector has a super short-throw. I mean, really short.
Sanyo have announced the PDG-DHT100L, a pro-class native-1080p DLP projector capable of 7,500:1 contrast and 6,500 lumens brightness thanks to dual 330W HP bulbs and a twin color wheel system. Suited to 24/7 installs, the DHT100L comes with user-interchangeable color wheels that allow the option of high brightness or rich color reproduction.
Pico-projectors are growing in popularity and number, but less impressive is their typical resolution and brightness. That could all change, though, if Maradin’s miniaturized laser-diode projector (MLP) technology gains a foothold; based on MEMS projector tech, the system uses a low-powered laser beam to produce what are reportedly high-resolution, quality footage.
A group of MIT students have developed a wearable computer that projects its display onto any nearby surface, and is controlled by hand gestures and voice-recognition. A prototype was demonstrated at TED this week, capable of projecting a watch face onto the user’s wrist after they trace a circle over it, capturing images framed by their fingers, and pulling up information about an individual and projecting it onto them during conversation.
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Do you love your home theater setup? Do you sit at work all day, counting down the minutes until you can go home and watch a movie? Are you thinking about your home theater right now? So is Epson. They want to be a part of it, and as a result, they’ve announced a new home theater projector - the PowerLite Home Cinema 6500 UB.
With a world that seems bent on making everything either as big or as small as possible, we do not find the coming of the CV-MP01 anything out of the ordinary. This seemingly useless device seems to be more for the “I told you I could do it” factor.
Optoma’s pico-projector first showed up back in June, with few details aside from a tentative promise of limited distribution in late 2008. Now the company has confirmed that the projector, the PK101, will go on sale in December at Japanese Apple Stores, offering buyers a 120g battery-powered device capable of creating up to 66-inch images at 480 x 320 resolution.
Halloween may be over, but Finkbuilt’s Steve Lodefink has only just got around to showing off the impressive DIY fog screen he built to befreak the local trick & treaters. Based on the principle that you can project an image onto a moving wall of fog, Steve’s home-made system creates the screen using drinking straws and a fan, and projects an eye animation.
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Despite only just releasing the SDK for their multitouch Surface table, Microsoft have already updated the system with a second layer of projection functionality. As well as the current projected display, the new SecondLight Surface is capable of throwing a second image onto any translucent material – for instance a piece of paper – held above the table. Developed by the company’s Cambridge, UK research arm, SecondLight can be used to display, say, an image of a car on the table-top together with a moveable cutaway schematic on a handheld screen held above.
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