According to chairman Robert Lai, Asia Optical is set to send out 8-million pocket projector units for handsets in 2010 – an exponential number from 2010’s mere 100,000 units.
Together with Microvision, Asia Optical has launched Microvision’s SHOWWX pico projector and expects to send Microvision 200,000 – 250,000 pico projector modules.
According to Digitimes, “Lai cited Gartner [...]

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HP plans to market two mobile PC solutions this year – the tablet and a notebook with an integrated pico projector.

According to DigiTimes, Monty Wong, VP of HP in Taiwan, mentioned that HP also plans place the pico projector where the webcam is normally located.
The pico projector notebooks will mainly be produced by Quanta Computer [...]

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Favi claims their ROILED-V as a hybrid media player that incorporates the convenience of a netbook, a media player, and a projector that fits in to your pocket. Running on a Linux OS, the ROILED-V takes multiple web applications including: Youtube, Flickr, Picasa, Yahoo news and weather, email, a web browser, and more. It has [...]

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CES 2010 – Las Vegas, Nevada – MSI unveils its concept prototype – the MSI Projector PC.

According to Engadget, the MSI Projector PC blasts HD video at about the quality of a micro projector. They also mention that the brightness is notably a step above the pico projector levels.
Essentially, the MSI Projector PC is a [...]

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Samsung has just released a mobile phone with a built in pico projector which has been at the head of the Samsung news tree. Mysteriously, they also released a pico projector unit that boasts 30 lumens which hasn’t gotten much coverage in light of their projector phone. 30 lumens isn’t bad considering 3M has just [...]

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It has been news for awhile, but Microvision is releasing a micro projector based first person shooter video game controller.

The guys at CrunchGear had a first hand test of the Microvision product and seem to be very excited about it for a few different factors.
The first factor they mention is that the projector is based [...]

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CES 2010 – Las Vegas – 3M launches an enhanced version of their pico projector dubbed the MPro150. This is the first pocket projector that 3M has released which incorporates 1-gig of built-in memory as well as a removable micro SD card.
The MPro150 uses LED powered LCoS technology and projects images at VGA resolution with [...]

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