Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

I’ve been waiting for laptops (and other devices) to replace their screens with projectors for years now. Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You:

Pint-size digital projectors are in the works. These devices, when plugged into cellphones and portable media players, will let consumers beam video content from their hand-held devices to the closest smooth surface — entertaining themselves, annoying their neighbors and possibly contributing to a new warning sign: No Projectors in This Area. The microprojectors, still in prototype, use light-emitting diodes, lasers or a combination of the two to cast a display of up to 50 or 60 inches, or perhaps even wider, in darkened spaces and 7 to 20 inches or so when there is ambient light.

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