Want to share those photos or videos you’ve just taken with your iPod/iPhone with friends? At 112.8 X 48.0 X 16.0mm (4.4 X 1.8 X 0.60 in) and 98g (3.5oz), the PoP Video pico projector is small enough to carry in your pocket and turns your iPod 3G/4G or iPhone 3GS/4/4S into a portable projector. It’s able to project a qHD (960X540) picture onto the nearest surface at an optimal distance of 13 – 130 cms (5 – 40 in). The built-in lithium-ion battery gives up to two hours and charges via Micro-USB.
Is that a projector in your pocket or……… 🙂
Currently available for preorder for $99 and expected to ship on or before June 1, 2012.
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there’s tons of such projectors on the market. but all of them have short battery life and very low image quality.
i can’t imagine who is need them in REAL life.
This is fantastic! I wish my mobile phone had this built into the device. Apple revealed some ideas last year. Being able to share content using a projector is like the counterpart to the camera or having a bigger screen available instantly. This is as revolutionary as the camera at the time. Of course the battery life and even more the lux (brightness of the LED) are the challenges.
To those who ask “why bother?”…this is the coolest use of the micro projectors we have seen to date:
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
If these “anywhere” interfaces are to work, pico projectors will have to play a part.
Man, seeing “iPhone 4S” and a pre-order date of 2012 really takes me back! It’s wild to look at the specs now—specifically that qHD (960×540) resolution. At the time, having a projector that size in your pocket felt like absolute magic, even if the picture was a bit grainy by today’s 4K standards.
I actually stumbled upon this while looking up retro tech to integrate into a “museum” corner in my home office. I’ve mostly moved away from these direct-connect portable gadgets and rely on a central media server now. I even recently had to install a dedicated 1-port network interface card https://serverorbit.com/network-devices/network-interface-cards/1-port-en in my main rig just to ensure I had a stable enough connection to stream high-bitrate video to modern wireless screens, rather than relying on dongles.
It makes me wonder, though—does anyone still have one of these working in their drawer? I’m curious if that lithium-ion battery actually managed to hold a charge after a decade.