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Sanwa's iPhone pico projector gets spec bump, trebled brightness (video)
Sanwa has revamped the PRJ011 iPhone charging sleeve-cum-pico-projector we saw back in January. The new PRJ016 packs a 1,850mAh battery that can recharge your handset up to 80 percent and also power the projection mode if you want to enjoy a movie, or a spreadsheet, blown onto your wall. The 35 lumens DLP device has three times the brightness of its predecessor, can project for 120 minutes on a full tank and has a maximum display size of 60-inches, focusing from a distance of up to six feet. It's available in Japan from tomorrow, setting you back ¥23,800 ($305), and in the meantime there's a Chiaroscuro video waiting after the break if you'd like to know more.
German labs set new mark for energy efficient white OLEDs
BASF and OSRAM ticked the OLED progress meter up one recently, with news out of Germany about new diodes that are both efficient (60 lumens per watt) and reproduce color accurately enough to meet international Energy Star standards. The most power sipping organic light-emitting diodes ever created they aren't, but the ability to keep their color under varying levels of intensity leads to the next step, producing stable deep-blue colored emitters for increased efficiency (100 lumens per watt or more) so they can start illuminating surfaces near you. Isn't it lucky, we know some folks in South Korea BASF might want to have a chat with.[Via OLED-Info]
Panasonic shows off PT-AE1000U 1080p LCD projector
Nothing like Panasonic's new 1080p 11,000:1 contrast ratio LCD projector to brighten up our day. The company is showing the PT-AE1000U at a pre-CES preview, although we already got a look at this and its 720p cousin, the AX100U, at CEDIA recently. It's still got a Sony Pearl-beating 1,100 ANSI lumens of brightness, 14-bit color correction and C2Fine LCD panels for better blacks. The MSRP is set at $5,999 and units should be available later this month.
