New Pico Projectors are Coming to the Market

This year’s CES witnessed the rebirth of 3D and there was so much hype about tablet PCs and other new devices.  One notable product development is on pico or mini projectors.  If you can remember, Nikon launched last year the Coolpix S1000pj compact digital camera.  It has a built-in projector that can project a display up to 40 inches, thus earning the title as the world’s first pico projector.  This small device employs LEDs, in conjunction with microscopic mirrors, instead of conventional lamps used by full-sized projectors.  One leading manufacturer in this field is Texas Instruments, which came out with the Digital Light Processing Pico chips. Each DLP chip contains up to 2 million microscopic mirrors that can reflect a high-resolution image on a wall or screen when applied a digital video signal.  Because of its very small size, DLP Pico projectors can be crammed into all kinds of small devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras.  New products, which utilized the DLP pico technology, include a snap-on projector for the LG eXpo mobile phone, the Samsung W9600 projector phone and the Brightboxe, said to be the world’s first Pico gaming projector.

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