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justdrew
Interactive musings from a creative technophile
The future of hand-held displays- Project it!
With devices shrinking to nearly invisible, displays need to stay the same or get bigger.
How to solve this apparent dilemma? Embed tiny projector units into handheld devices so the display can scale up quite large.
Of course, this idea has been floating around for some time now, as well as ideas to use projection technology as input (as in the laser projected full-sized keyboard that has somehow failed to capture the market’s attention).
However, the news is now, the technology (battery power, image processing, ability to push enough candle-power to be effective) is getting to where it’s good enough and cheap enough to fit our incessant demands for tiny handheld units.
Now, we just need to come up with a clever way to energize particles in the air so this display can hover in front of us without the need for a flat surface on which to project…
Here’s how close we’re getting to this being the defacto standard. Read the eWeek article.
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