Cell Phone with a Built-in Projector...

Now you might have seen gadgets like this in movies, but once again science has succeeded in catching up with fiction.It's difficult to enjoy videos or movies on cell phone with friends when all you've got is a tiny 3 inch screen.


Well, Texas Instruments has got an answer for this problem.Don't use your cell phone screen, use a wall instead.They've come up with a digital light processing (DLP) "pico" projector, which can fit right into a cell phone. what..!! you don't believe me, well, watch it for yourself. The Cell phone used in the demonstration is a fake but the projector works and it is fit into the body of a cell phone.. .

The projector contains three lasers, a DLP chip and a power supply and measures about 1.5 inches in length. With the projector, the cell phone can beam DVD-quality video onto a screen or a wall, thereby allowing it to serve as a video player or a television. By using the projector, the actual "screen" size can be much larger than what a person would get by using the LCD panel integrated into the phone. The chip inside the phone, in fact, could drive images for a wide screen television.

Hundreds of thousands of microscopic mirrors inside the handset flip with tiny amounts of energy, reflecting the right colours to make up the picture.

If it needed as much power as a standard projector, the show would be over in minutes. "In designing this pico-projector, with the use of LED illumination and the chip, along with other components, we've engineered it to last longer," said Michael Guillory, head of marketing for Texas Instruments' digital light processing products.

"You want to use the cell phone, so you don't want it to take up all its power using the projector," he said. "So by designing it to last at least an hour and a half it allows our customers to manufacture a very usable device."

Well, i can think of a number of things to do with this cool gadget which i'm not going to type here, I'm sure you can think for yourself. But here's a link to some very interesting ideas, and another video of the gadget. check it out.