World's Smallest Projector


	World's Smallest Projector

dorine

3-20-2007 12:49 PM

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Microvision, an imaging company in Redmond, Washington, has incorporated the technology in a tiny prototype projector that debuted in January.—Eric Mika

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pocket-size by inventing MP3 compression, and now it’s made video equally mobile. Researchers at the German think tank have crammed a video projector into a box about the size of a sugar cube. This feat of miniaturization could be the first step toward portable gadgets that project big-screen images wherever you go.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/d1e17ec2d6221110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/5.html"> A typical projector requires nearly 800,000 mirrors and a single lamp large enough to illuminate the entire array, all of which add bulk to its frame. The researchers’ mass-shedding trick was to use a single mirror just two hundredths of an inch in diameter. Instead of remaining stationary, the mirror does the job of many by rapidly tilting in two directions, projecting individual pixels across the screen in an oscillating wave that converges to complete a 20-inch image.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D4DA610-44C3-409A-89EB-769E80A91CAD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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