Every week we consistently get another couple new
pico projectors to tell you about, and since the market for these things can't possibly be big enough to support all these releases the only possible explanation is that people are continually losing the things. Assuming that's the case, Ever Win's EWP1000 could be your next misplaced projector. As such it has fairly forgettable specs, including 10 lumens of brightness, VGA (640 x 480) resolution, projection sizes of between 5- and 50-inches, and about 80 minutes of battery life on a charge. About the only thing distancing this from the competition is its Ferengi-inspired styling, giving it a more notable look than most others and possibly making it perfect for your next Tongo party. But, with no price or availability, we won't blame you if you don't remember this tomorrow either.
posted April 1st 2009 9:23AM
are any of these available or priced yet?
I just want one for the summer. iphone + video out cable + pico projector + beach at night == great.
by any of these, I mean any pico projectors. before anyone pipes in about not reading the article....
Staples sells 1, but all the current ones out have bad reviews. Give it some time till they produce some better quality ones.
If you're out on the beach at night and all you can think of to do is watch tv on your phone I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong.
damn thought it said Enter to win...
these things are getting so popular...i can see the iphone having a built in one or something similar in the future..
Pretty nice little projector to wear in pocket :) But 80 min battery life may be not enough for a longer presentation....
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I want One
i want it!
Can someone explain why I can buy a 200 lumen led flash light bright enough to blind someone but these things top out at 10 lumen? the flash light on batteries can run 30 minutes at 200 lumens and could step down the brightness in order to get longer battery life. Plugged in it could run all day and how often do you not have access to external power? I think that these are toys or oddities until the brightness goes up
The only way I can explain it is that the engineers doing those things don't know their business.
Heat is not a problem, an XR-E at 1W gives very little heat, so that a small (2cm) star heatsink is enough, and yet it's >90lm bright. Way brighter than this.
....now if they were to heatsink it like they do with flashlights, ie. thermally connecting the LED to the whole metallic case, they could push the whole 1A into it and get absolutely crazy brightness levels
But then battery would be the problem. In a flashlight, the batteries fill almost the whole case. In a projector, there's other stuff you need to fit inside.
DarkLight (pun intended?), you're obviously no engineer either, and you definitely do not understand the law of thermodynamics, especially the second law. Go back and read up a bit so the next time you open your mouth you can make an intelligent comment.
Sign me up
gimme, gimme! :)
Try as I might, I can't come up with a single reason for mini-projectors to exist.
Presentations. It's not like PowerPoint looks that hot to begin with, and these things are portable as all get-out.
Wow a little early today.
pick my sexy ass
I would love to have one for my freelance job. When I visit client at their place I can do a presentation on my iphone.
Thanks Engaget
"Ferengi-inspired styling"? I don't see it.
very nice
Would be awesome for when I travel
This has much better quality then the ones shown recently, I would actually consider getting this.
I disagree that the potential market for pico projectors is limited. Imagine a pico projector paired with a really small atom computer:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/toradexs-robin-stuffs-atom-based-computer-on-credit-card-sized/
Add an infrared led camera to do an electronic whiteboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqo8zym1YEc
And you quickly have a pocket size netbook that you can use as long as you have a wall or some suitable display surface. The battery would be huge in comparison, but there is some cool research going on to improve the energy density by an order of magnitude by using silicon nanostructures:
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n1/full/nnano.2007.411.html
The devices will only get smaller... a key chain netbook would be really cool in my opinion.