HYPOLED develops mega-tiny VGA projector display, has a tiny coin in the photo to prove it

HYPOLED, an 18-month-old project tasked with creating OLED microdisplays for upcoming pico projectors, has just released a report of its recent progress. Among the advances is a Fraunhofer IPMS-designed all digital VGA, full color OLED microdisplay backplane with matching pico projector optics. The display measures just 0.18-mm thick and is already in prototype manufacturing. The super miniscule display is connected to a MediaBox enabling it to operate via WiFi. Fraunhofer is now expected to begin developing a prototype of the full projector, meaning that with any luck, our picos should be getting a teensy, tiny bit cooler in the near future.

[Via About Projectors]

[compwhiz Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:06AM]

That IS awesome!

[loocas Posted Oct 5th 2009 2:56PM]

Rather pretty tiny.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:10AM]

That's not a penny.

[kris120890 Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:14AM]

Its a euro I think.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:15AM]

20 eurocent or so,
frauenhofer is a german research organization ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society )

[Ghen Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:22AM]

If that's not a penny then HYPOLED needs to make it smaller! :| I will not accept a sufficiently euro sized projector. I just simply won't!

[LauraJuneTopolsky Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:35AM]

so true!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 12:13PM]

Careful I think it is metric.

[RikkiTikkiTavi Posted Oct 5th 2009 4:54PM]

It's 5 euro-cent, and I think it's one of these giant coins they have for press shots. ;)

[arnavdesai Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:13AM]

We need this in our laptops built in. I think it would be pretty handy as an additional little projector . They can start with gaming laptops and work them into the business laptops eventually.

[Boyprodigy1 Posted Oct 5th 2009 2:48PM]

Better yet, cell phones.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:35AM]

help me HypoLED... you're my only hope
help me HypoLED... you're my only hope
help me HypoLED... you're my only hope

[jol Posted Oct 5th 2009 10:51AM]

I don't feel like having them change from lcd to oled will make much of a difference. I mean, can you really get much smaller with the new tech?

[Sibuna Posted Oct 5th 2009 7:00PM]

I would hate to have a LCD projector- it would either be on or off.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 11:39AM]

Combine this with the eee keyboard.

[pmaster500 Posted Oct 5th 2009 11:58AM]

all this time people have been using giant-sized coins to fool us!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 12:17PM]

Not really that impressive. Here's video of it from San Antonio last June:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzqqObZKgJ4

[kiranmk2 Posted Oct 5th 2009 12:55PM]

It should be noted that the pico-projector from hypOLED is monochrome. The microdisplay is full colour. This is due to the high-brightnesses needed for a projcetor and the limited lifespan of the full colour materials.

[incognito Posted Oct 5th 2009 2:54PM]

All glory to the HypoLED!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 3:47PM]

a-ha, just what I suspected... an oversized coin!