Now that we have email, internet, TV, GPS, cameras, and satellite radio on our cellphones, our next wish is for bigger, higher resolution screens -- which seems paradoxical, because larger displays almost always mean bulkier devices. Well Texas Instruments thinks it'll soon be able to nullify this trade-off with an
in-handset projector that
we've heard about several times before, but last night's Pepcom event in New York was the first time we've been able to peep the technology up close. Not that the TI reps made it easy to do so: the prototype unit was in a locked metal case underneath the table, and we had to swear up and down that we saw Walt Mossberg getting a demo before they'd cough it up. As you can see, the reason they want to keep this under wraps for the time being is that the quality and brightness are certainly not ready for prime time yet; while the unit we saw used lasers as the light source, we're told that an LED-based model still in the lab offers significant improvements. Keep reading for more shots of this rare prototype -- along with a video courtesy of
Popular Science -- and give yourself a few moments to bask in the future before returning to the stark reality of your own phone and its dim little QQVGA action...
posted Sep 20th 2007 12:15PM
申 请 号： 200710165341.4 申 请 日： 2007.10.29
名 称： 一种新型智能超大屏幕手机
公 开 (公告) 号： CN101137157 公开(公告)日： 2008.03.05
主 分 类 号： H04Q7/32(2006.01)I 分案原申请号：
分 类 号： H04Q7/32(2006.01)I;H04M1/21(2006.01)I
颁 证 日： 优 先 权：
申请(专利权)人： 窦春广 电话号码 13555152333
地 址： 155120黑龙江省双鸭山市岭东区二站路113号
发 明 (设计)人： 窦春广;韩秀美;窦春波;窦春莲 国 际 申 请：
国 际 公 布： 进入国家日期：
专利 代理 机构： 代 理 人：
摘要
本发明公开了一种新型智能超大屏幕手机，包括手机本体，所述手机配置有一个小型投影仪。它以投影机代替手机屏幕，解决了手机屏幕较小，上网、看电影等不舒服的问题。本发明用投影仪代替手机屏幕，真正扩大了手机的屏幕，使人们使用起来爽心悦目，一般情况下，大屏幕手机往往给使用者带来了较舒适的视觉效果，同时，对于拍照手机来说，随着屏幕的增大也方便了用户取景和更好的享受图片、视频带来的视觉冲击，还有诸如收发短信时可以减少翻屏的频率等等。
I'm not sure why I am doing this (for fear of being flamed), but look at those icons. LOOK AT THE ICONS! They look damn familiar.
Flame!
now i can show everyone my porn collection.
I don't get why shiny PNG icons are suddenly the exclusive domain of Apple...
Not any old PNG icons, MAC icons. That's iCal, Quicktime, Address Book, etc straight out of Mac OS X.
um, mabye it is an APPLE COMPUTER?????!?
haha with mac icons
Wow!!! Absolutely awesome!! I hope Nokia has this technology in their phones. Maybe we'll get to see an enterprise cellphone with projector feature soon. Give a presentation anywhere!
What a bright idea!
you... and... your... pun... arg....
Interesting... why in the first picture is the screen on the cell phone not matching the screen on the table cloth?
Thats because it's not a real phone and not a real screen.
I love this idea! So freakin cool!
Plus, *any* public restroom could be a peepshow booth!
Ahh the possibilities!
you must be a foot tapper!
is the cellphone functional or is just a looklikecellphone box? or more specific, its he proyector the size of the "cellphone"or quite smaller?? i can see this in media players rather than cellphones
Speaking as someone that has worked a lot in conference rooms, the idea of a tiny low-quality projector is GREAT. I can't count the number of times I've wished to be able to throw something up on the whiteboard to discuss it with the group instead of huddling around my laptop's screen.
Even dim, low quality projected images are better than printouts and 15 people around a 15" laptop screen.
Just as long as you don't ask for I.T. support... everything is A-OK!
O. M. G. It amazing...its the mothalovin mirrors, man. The matrix has you TI...that's funkin wild!!!
shouldn't you be in school or some institution...
Reality check: it serves a purpose but it's going to be very expensive. Probably around the $1000 mark or more...
Reality Check: All new technology is expensive when it first comes out. I remember when DVD burners for computers were above $500. Now you can get them for under $50? I remember when flat panel monitors were in the $1000++ and look at where they are now. Technology like this is not expensive because of the materials it takes to create them. Technology is only expensive like this because it costs more to produce in smaller quantities. If there is a high demand, it is cheaper to produce and will drive prices down. That is the way it works.
if that clunky piece of hardware is still called a phone.
i guess.
Pro-to-type
Prototype.
–noun
1. the original or model on which something is based or formed.
2. someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist.
3. something analogous to another thing of a later period: a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing.
4. Biology. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group.
–verb (used with object)
5. to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car.
Of course it looks ugly and not quite workable yet. Its not even close to being finished. Any piece of hardware and what not is usually much bigger and less usable then a finished product.
It is not a prototype. Its what you'd call a proof of concept. We may just be splitting hairs but working in hardware design (Moto), a prototype looks very close to its final form from the very first iteration.
No manufacturer in their right mind would take that humongous piece of crap to market. Even if they did pretty it up a little.
Yo, I wouldn't admit I work for Moto in ANY design department...a lot of people on this site are still, you know, upset about that neverending RAZR design....
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...well, at least you don't work in any of Palm's design departments.
One sec, Ben, I got a call:
"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope..."
i Can see that being used in every business oriented smartphone, and or media player/phone. I want one.
So not only can the guy behind me in the movie theater piss me off with his cell phone conversation, but he will be showing his own movie off the back of my head!?!
is your head that big to compete with the screen
Hope it get smaller by the time its ready for production
1. This is gonna revolutionize mobile computing.
2. The prototype shown seems to have seen a lot of abuse (the corners have been worn a bit)
3. "omg rip off of apple icons" shut up
4. "it's too big for a cell phone" you're a dumbass. Don't you have any clue what this means? You are soon going to have a full fledged computer in your pocket. Remember that microsoft video with the kid and his flying robot? This technology lets the interface he used become reality. Projected full res screens and a laser key pad would make it worth it size no problem.
Wow... that did NOT go to the right comment...
Wonder what it does to battery life.
Tiuk, my thought exactly.
useless, screw projector or gps, all i want is a real razor on my razr so I can shave on the way to work, it'll probably also prevent others from borrowing my phone. say, that could be a nice ipod add-on as well, iShave
If that's what you want, you should check out this phone: http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
Well, as cool as this is. The phone -is- fake. In every single shot and video of the phone, the time is always exactly 2:55 PM. Really interesting concept though. Can't fault Texas Instruments for using a fake phone, it's not as if they're trying to hide that fact.
It's a demo of the projector, not the clock. I very much doubt the thing can make phone calls either. It's likely a shell with a light up screen of color printed acetate.
Sam, I didn't say it was a demo of the clock. Stop smoking crack.
Yes! More Pr0n for everyone!
Now is not TI with the DLP technology the only tech of micro projectors for cell phone applications.
Israeli Explay is anorther one and Novalux which combine the TI DLP tech with a small laser chip.
Novalux is a Californien based company.
So now not only do we have to force everyone within ear shot to hear our one-sided conversations, now we get to trap them and show them our useless pictures as well! This gets better and better! Now if only they could project our mother-n-law as well....
3. "omg rip off of apple icons" shut up
Huh? You certainly aren't making any argument. These aren't just similar looking icon remakes, it looks like they just made copies of Apple's icon files. Even for a prototype, it's just a bad idea on TI's part to do that.
DIE, SPAMMER!
its a good concept however..what do guys think the battery life is? and untop of that....whats the size of this going to be ....with the projector lense at the front...i mean that pretty much rules out the option of a modern.. (thin) phone..
its bad enough on the bus or tube, at the back thugs playin there tripped out (tinny crap eminem) phone tunes! now im gonna have to watch their happy slaps too!
or even better for the voilent amongst you, not only can you happy slap some poor guy half to death but you project his personal happy slap on to his body then you can project the video of you projecting a video on to a victim to other victims before you happy slap them and project there slap on them!!!!
OMG you're all right! They rip off icons.
That's the oldschool MacMAME arcade cabinet icon. Screw ripping off multinational corporation Apple, ripping off the kind developers who port the software to run illegally copied arcade games? That's just rough. Unless..... MacMAME runs on the TI Phone!!
Shitake mushrooms, man. I wanna run me some projector pacman from my cellphone.
Combine this a camera, a foldable mirror and with this software: http://techvideoblog.com/cebit/yahsin-projector-and-digital-pen-concept/
And you've got the most compact large screen computing interface.
wait a minute,hasn't this sort of tech been thought of already,i thought Motorola just hooked up with a tech company offering projection?
tHA RIGHT MAn!
ya mon
thats all cool and all, but can you place calls on it?
hEYS dudes wha other stuff is there sitting on that tabletop? me sees some cool stuff theres
Microvision already has a much more advanced model out there - and is the company that signed with Motorola recently to put it in their products.
TI's version is large, consumes mucho battery power, and gets too hot in the hand. Also, the viewing of TI's is inferior to Mircovison's MEMS based screen.
The screen on the iPhone/iPod Touch just got a lil' bit less snazzy.
OMG.
Aside from all the supergeek, "This is like going to revolutionize the world!". Nerds Unite!
Am I the ONLY ONE who sees the pure evil in this?
You are all forgetting the lowest common denominator, this is going to be the most annoying peice of crap ever. Guys will be throwing up porn EVERYWHERE, and for a lot of guys, that joke won't get old quick. Somebody will turn around straight into a picture of Romanian Goat Porn.
This is just one more device in a long line of devices that will annoy that crap out of each other till somebody kills the other person.
That being said it is cool, but so was the atomic bomb at first.
RE: Apple customer relations about TI's use of Apple icons...
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Apple wrote:
"...Thank you for bring this to my attention.
I wanted to let you know that Apple is not affiliated with this product.
I will certainly take the information you have provided me with and pass it up the line."
Thanks again,
Apple
I want one of these things separate from a phone. It'd be great as a wireless monitor I could cart around the house.