At long last, an official release date for Texas Instruments'
DLP Pico projector. Mark it down, December 1st is the launch (delivered by December 19th) of the "world's smallest / lightest" (51 × 105 × 17-mm / 120g) projector under the Optoma PK-101 branding. And in a smart, hip-by-association marketing move, it'll be sold from the Apple Store in Japan with an iPhone / iPod kit and dock connector for a tax-inclusive price of about ¥50,000 ($511). It'll work with non-Apple gear too, of course. With up to 2-hours battery life, an integrated 0.5 watt speaker, and white LED light throwing a 60-inch, "
dazzlingly bright, sharp, vivid video image" packing 480 x 320 pixels from up to 8.5 feet away, Tokyo's Golden Gai district will never be the same.
P.S. Encore video hands-on of the unit in action posted after the break.
posted Nov 11th 2008 1:42AM
wonder if the whole projection can fit on the cankle of that guy who got the blackberry storm tat
Why?
Konichiwa DLP bitches!
Oh shit. Just what the world needs, a whole bunch of 16 year olds projecting anime onto every and all surfaces.Things like this and the iPod/iPhone should be kept apart.
Lets see some videos of it in use!
I can't for the life of me think of a reason of why this should be 'breaking'
They are playing WMVHD clips...
If it was 640 x 480 resolution, I would be interested.
I expect better than 480 x 320 from DLP. Much better.
i'll prefer to buy a LCD TV for that price and bring it along.
Maybe after a few years this will be more popular. just wait for it.
Do you also expect 1080p on your mobile phone just because it is LCD?
Some people just have to search for the negative side. Lighten up, dude.
wait, VGA and SVGA is on it's way..
'are' on their way
I 'love' all of the grammar Nazis on Engadget. Don't you realise that not everyone that posts on Engadget is from an English speaking country?
I for one reject our grammar overlords.
Its okay to be from a different nationality.
In this particular case avis was correcting his/her own grammar.
haha fail.
besides, if you dont write english good, dont right it ever.
punks
thanks Bill, I ain't grammar freak and wouldn't correct other's either...;)
Look, I don't care about the projector -- what is important is that the movie clip "Lion Seul" which I though only was available on PalmOS seems to exist in a format for the iPod. Me want. Now. Any pointers, anyone?
At first glance I thought it was a clip from 2 Stupid Dogs:
http://img.webring.com/r/2/2sd/logo
what kind of batteries are these, alkaline? lasting 2 years in terminals...don't the battery companies suggest not to leave them in for long periods of time?
How long does the LED last? Forever? Cost of replacement
3M Has a better one out there, that I put on my wish list: 3M MPro110 MSRP is $359, and can do 1280x768.
http://www.3mmpro.com/
That's what I'd rather have.
Wow, this is really cool!
mobile rickroll!
i would soooo mess with people.....