http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/ Engadget Comments for Microvision unveils tiny projector for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/
This particular image doesn't show the huge stack of electronics required to drive and control the MEMS and lasers. Apple's 2G shuffle my ass. It also has a serious speckle problem which makes the image look like crap.

Also they don't tell you how much just the green laser costs. It will be quite a number of years before anything like this will come into the price range to be able to be stuffed into essentially a disposable cell phone. Call me back when they actually have signed a contract that guarantees them money. Until then its a pipe dream. ]]>Jan 5th 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/
oh and yes, iptydafu!
with the new size of PDA's, we could bring the size of a PDA to 50% being the battery, the rest of electronics, a tiny 3 or 4 inches OLED
bright and thin for normal use
with a folded keyboard (or the projected keabord a company created 2 or 3 years ago (project the keys on any surface and knows which you put your finger on)
with this projector for normal / laptop / video use.

indeed good pocketable full laptop.

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What would be sweet is to have a pda with the new solid state hdd, and mix this projector with the projection keyboard tech for a project-able tablet pc. Oh man.... that would be sweeter than that Andes mint, and those are damn good!]]>Jan 5th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Actually this kinda brings up a good point. Why even have a LCD on a notebook. Why not just have a nice LED w/LCOS or DLP based projector in the keyboard/base unit. Your "monitor" would then be whatever vertical surface was place in front of the base unit. ]]>Jan 5th 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/
Green laser diodes @ 350mw are much less than $2000. You can use a green laser of less power than that to do what they are doing. Blue lasers are not as bright as green (to human eyes, the green will appear brightest at the same power level), and blue lasers are (were?) much more expensive than green lasers at the moment.]]>Jan 5th 2007 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 7th 2007 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/
TIMMAH!, Your comment defeats the main purpose of a notebook, they're intended for either work or gaming on the go, and most people don't want to display their work on a 50" screen for everyone to see.


And about those green lazers, they're anything But expensive. they cost about the same as a red one to produce.

I'm hoping that we're going to see these things for about 50$ in the next few years, as an option on notebooks and PDAs.]]>Jan 7th 2007 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 5th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/Jan 6th 2007 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/
Each of the red, green, and blue lasers must be infinitely adjustable from off to full power, and have that output perfectly repeatable, stable, and not change over the temperature range of the device. That is why these lasers cost more than you think, and that is why this product is not yet on the market. There is simply no green laser that meets the specifications required for a commercial product of this type. Microvision is working with a couple of laser manufacturers to develop something, but that takes a lot of time. The 6-8k laser is the best they have been able to do so far.

And as far as the extra electronics being all inside that little box? Fat chance. That little box holds the three lasers, some combining optics, and the MEMS mirror for scanning the spot. It is the control circtuitry that takes a video input and then controls the lasers, and drives the MEMS that takes a lot of space right now. Don't expect anything like this for quite a number of years from Microvision.

BTW, I used to work there and have seen the protoypes and the development of this product. ]]>Jan 8th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/microvision-unveils-tiny-projector-for-mobile-devices/can you help me
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