So far we have talked several times about projectors in mobile phones, micro projectors as design concepts… and finally we can say that it has come to real life! 3M has developed the first micro projector, which name is MPro110.
But this is not a projector in a mobile device, just a micro projector itself. Its size is not yet small enough to fit in a mobile phone, but 3M promises to get it smaller (and brighter and with higher screen resolution) in the coming years.
Let’s talk now about some features:
- Size: it’s palm-sized!!!
- Price: it will be around $359 and it will be shipped at the end of this month.
- Lamp: it uses liquid crystal on silicon and LCD on a mirror that bounces light out the front of the projector.
- Fan & sound?: it doesn’t have a fan neither speakers.
- Display: it can display a VGA image (640 x 480) up to 50 inches diagonally. For this purpose, the lamp of the projector is over a moveable surface, that you can move to point the image diagonally at any surface. It has a rate of 60 frames per second (TV quality).
- Inputs: it’s got VGA and composite video inputs. Also inputs for memory cards ands USB port.
- Focus: it has a thumb wheel on the top to focus the image.
Other companies are developing similar products, like Texas Instruments, which uses LED
and its DLP imaging chip, similar to what you get in rear projection TVs from
Samsung.
Great news, of course, we have been excited since the first micro projector concepts and prototypes. I want one of these!!!
Via OhGizmo!
