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 September 20th 2007 12:15PM
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.