WowWee Cinemin Swivel pico projector shocker: available now!

If you're like us, you've been marking the days off until you could get WowWee's Cinemin Swivel -- or, the pico with attitude, as we like to call it. We've been keeping our eyes on it since CES 2009, so we can sympathize. Well, looks like the wait is over -- it's popped up on Amazon and we hear you can grab one up at Brookstone, too. The DLP pico, which boasts a 480 x 360 resolution, an adjustable 90-degree hinge (for projecting your Richard Marx video collection onto the ceiling) will run you around $299.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:16PM]

In before watching porn on the ceiling above your bed joke.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 1:31PM]

I'm still waiting for these things to achieve higher resolution while maintaining a sub-$300 pricepoint. And I've heard pretty mixed reviews on how effective they are outside of a pitch-black room. Anyone have a pico/micro projector they really enjoy?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:24PM]

Saw one of these demoed in a Brookstone last Friday. PQ was *horrible*. I'll be interested when they hit netbook screen resolutions.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 1:40PM]

i'm still waiting for the showwx laser one...

all these 1st gen projectors are getting a little long in the tooth. where's the next gen? dell's mini projector is nice, but just not quite there yet....

[chispito Posted Nov 16th 2009 1:47PM]

You bent your PP (pico projector).

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:10PM]

I Lol'ed

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 1:51PM]

The showwx one has started shipping apparently. Unfortunately the first batch will go to a mobile phone network who will undoubtably try to bundle it in with an expensive phone contract for free, rather then just selling it.

Moo.

[scoobydooby Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:01PM]

480x360? Pathetic. The Aaxa P2 does 800x600 at 33 lumens for just $49 more. No idea why anyone would invest in a first generation pico projector, plus it has 1GB of memory, a decent media player, MicroSD slot and can natively display documents without a PC.

[slamEVIL Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:51PM]

but this one bends!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:35PM]

I'll probably pick one when they're half the price they're going for now. I'm not really willing to drop over $300 for what to me would be a novelty.

[slamEVIL Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:52PM]

Cinemin really is a rather brilliant name.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:57PM]

This is about $149 too much. I have no idea what it costs to produce it and recoup R&D costs...just saying what I'd pay for something like this. It doesn't fill a huge gap in my life by any means...I think I could find some cool stuff to do with it, it might come in handy for impromptu meetings or something...but something that serves that purpose is going to have to work really hard to break the $100 spending barrier for me...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:37PM]

I want to see the first results of someone hacking it to improve the lumens. I am fine with the low resolution, but for watching a quick video off my ipod or other PMP, a little more lumens would be great.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 5:24PM]

This is awesome - I'll buy a bunch of those, as soon as they set me back no more than $39.95, as toys for kids and just having them around house. But we're getting there.