BeamBox Evolution R-1 pico available for pre-order, shipping April 1
By Laura June 
posted March 18th 2009 3:44PM
posted March 18th 2009 3:44PM
BeamBox has just announced it's taking pre-orders for the Evolution R-1 pocket projector. If you've forgotten, the R-1 boasts an LCoS chip, with a brightness of 30 lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio and VGA (640 x 480) resolution. The little guy has up to 4GB of onboard Flash memory, plus a microSD slot. It weighs in at about 175 grams, and will run you £260 (about $364), and is expected to ship on April 1st.
Why, iPod, how fat you've grown! And iPod, what a nice lens you've sprouted!
What's with the oldtime resolution on these small projectors, where do they even find the chips at that resolution? And not even widescreen either.
Well at least the prices seem to be slowly dropping, but they got some way to go before they find many takers I imagine.
Yeah... I want a tiny projector with full hd and weeks of battery time, and I want it NOW!! Who cares if my eyes are pretty much unable to see the different when watching movies at a reasonable viewing distance. I want bigger numbers! I dont care what they mean... MAKE THEM BIIIIGG!!!!!!
WAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAH!
Oh lovely sarcasm, I just do hope you don't eat any excrement and accidentally die short term, I do, and don't believe anybody that compares you to any lower parts of the anatomy either please.
We get it. It's shaped like a recatangle and has a wheel on it. Thanks for reminding us of a company that really has nothing to do with this item.
Does the onboard flash memory let you use it as a digital picture frame or something? Sounds kind of nice.
Slashgear lists the supported formats, but there is a number of video formats, so It looks like you could load a pretty substantial movie on it (If you are only playing back at 640x480 I would think you could get a couple of full length films in FLV for less than 4 GB)
$364 is a little steep for that resolution, but if they got 1280x800, I might pay over 300 to own one.
http://www.slashgear.com/beambox-r-1-pico-projector-ships-april-1st-for-360-1838065/
Just kidding April Fools :)
That's what I was thinking, why not move the launch ahead or back a day just for creditability's sake. Granted it doesn't appear to boast any reasonable specs like 1080p at 1000 lumens or anything, but the ship date alone could raise a brow or two.
finally a pico projector worth talking about!
I think if they had A/V inputs there would be a lot more takers. I can see people carrying this around with their video camera for quick playback or even with a gaming console where TV's are not available and simply too bothersome to take along with the console. Right now, I don't see something this expensive and lacking input ports doing much business, and if it does, that's fine too, it's just not for me.
It does, if you read the site specs on there website it says AV-IN.
Ah I see. Sorry, I missed that
I have had mine for a month yet when i wrote engadget for my unboxing i got no response. sigh
The BeamBox SoSuMi Apple. Get 'em while they're not in an industrial shredder!
I have an idea... Let's post a picture of a device, special due to it's small size, and put nothing in the picture as a size reference...
???
Profit!
Ah, I missed it too at first glance. But there is a small red projector right next to it, so you can see it is just as small!
It's the same model just a different color, Mister Observant!
they need to put tv tuners in these things
looks like a fat ipod shuffle and expensive..
They shipped some even before April 1. I got a black one last week and to answer the questions above:
Yes it has AV input and comes with the cable to do normal SD video which is basically 640x480.
Yes it does music, video, photo slideshow.
I haven't ran out of battery yet.
You can use an external TV tuner if you really want to. I'm glad they didn't try and put in a non-digital tuner since that wouldn't be useful for very long anyway.
The only problem I have with mine is that there isn't any way to adjust the contrast and mine is kind of dark so I have an e-mail into BeamBox to help me figure out how to make the colors in some photos show up a little better.
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