RoyalTek RPJ-2000 pico projector

RoyalTek's maiden entry into the pico projector market has resulted in the RPJ-2000, where this standalone projector sans internal memory will rely on 3M's 2nd-generation LCoS engine. Out in Taiwan and Europe, this model has received the go ahead from Apple to be used with the iPhone and iPod. It runs quietly thanks to Quanta's fanless technology, and retails for around 219 Euros across the Atlantic for the basic model. iPhone and iPod owners who want to hook up their devices to this will have to fork out another 30 Euros for a connectivity kit. RoyalTek has targeted a 60,000 unit sales in 2010.

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Adapt 305 Pocket Projector

Good 'ol English gentlemen at www.personalprojector.co.uk say:

For anyone who's been tracking the progress of pico projectors, this amazing little device will be seen as something akin to the holy grail.

Despite its pocket-sized dimensions, it's somehow able to throw out a 100in pin-sharp picture at 800x400 resolution with an impressive brightness rating of 45 lumens.

As well as being able to connect to your laptop, console, iPod or phone, the 305 also has its own built-in media player capable of handling MPEG and AVI files from the generous 4GB of onboard memory.

For even more storage, there's an SD Card slot and there's even a cute little tripod for keeping things steady.

The media player struggled with some DIVX files I tried, while the two-hour battery life means movie fans are going to have to have it rigged up to the mains.

However, this doesn't diminish the fact that the Adapt 305 is far and away the best projector of this type I've tried.

The Adapt ADPP 305micro projector features

Project image up to 100 inches at 350CM distance

Project video, photo, music from its memory/micro SD card

Easily project from laptop, PC, net book by VGA

Photo: JPEG, BMP,GIF Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC, AAC, AAC+,MPEG1,2,2.5

Video: MPEG1,2,4 AVI 3G, WMV9, VC1, ASF, RM, RMVB, FLV

Audio speaker Stereo (0.5W * 2)

Built-in memory: 4GB

Memory Slot TF card/Micro SD card 

Resolution:800x600 SVGA

Aspect Ratio 4:3

Zoom & Focus: Manual

Dimensions
Projector: Dimension 110mm x 60mm x 25mm (40mm with battery)
Weight: 190 grams using mains (300 grams inc. 1 hr battery)
Projected Screen: 6 to 100 inches

Sparkz iPhone/iPod Dock and Projector

Billed as being the ‘world’s first iPhone/iPod portable projector’ – make of that what you will considering the above named products (and certainly with reference to the Qingbar MP101 and iJector) – the Sparkz iPhone/iPod Dock Pico Projector sports a 3M LED LCoS lens offering 15 lumens brightness and a resolution of up to 640 x 480 (1024 x 768 is also represented) allowing for projections of up to 60”, comes with integrated stereo speakers and as well as serving to also charge any docked iPhone or iPod the device will also happily work with a host of other AV equipment, such as DVD players, camcorders and gaming consoled (including portable gaming devices such as the PSP) thanks to the addition of an AV port. It also comes complete with its own tripod allowing you to easily set the device up to project on walls (though it can be used sans tripod if you’re looking to employ this as a bedside table dock).

The Sparkz iPhone/iPod Dock Pico Projector which is billed as offering a battery life of up to 2.5 hours based on a full charge along with an LED life of up to 50,000 hours will set you back some $495 which, considering the price points of the aforementioned other iPhone/iPod projectors, is a pretty sweet deal.

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Lancer iJector, iPhone/iPod docking station

All the user needs to do is stick their iPhone or iPod on the dock, and you can project them at a great brightness at up to 50 inch diagonal. The resolution has a low resolution at about 557 x 234.

It weighs in at about 120 grams and has dimensions of 195×145x96mm. The brightness level is at 20 lumens, and the lamp can stand about 30,000 hours.

The iJector is one of those “made for iPod” products that should work for most iPod products, and is compatible with the following:

iPod nano generation 1
iPod nano generation 2
iPod nano generation 3
iPod video generation 5 30 GB
iPod video generation 5 50 GB
iPod Classic 80GB
iPod Classic 160GB
iPod touch 8GB
iPod touch 16GB
iPod touch 32GB
iPhone 3.0

Suspiciously absent from this bulleted list is the iPhone 3GS. Uh-oh.

The iJector is a licensed Apple product and costs $700. It looks like it will be available in Japan only, on July 17.

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Optoma Pico PK101

Optoma picked an appropriate moniker for its Lilliputian-size video projector. The Pico PK101 isn't just small, it's almost inconceivably tiny. It measures just 1.97 inches wide by 4.06 inches long by 0.59 inches thick, and it weighs only four ounces.

Texas Instruments’ DLP (Digital Light Processor) technology deserves much of the credit for making such a product possible. DLP projectors create an image by bouncing light off microscopic mirrors arranged in a matrix on a semiconductor. Each mirror represents a pixel in the image and swivels to either reflect light through the lens or to an internal heatsink. Toggling these two states on and off creates a grayscale. Color pixels are created by using either a color wheel or a colored light source. Optoma uses a non-replaceable LED for its light source, which it claims should last for 20,000 hours. There’s a tiny speaker and a 0.5-watt amp onboard, too.

In addition to its Li-Ion battery, the Pico PK101 can operate on AC or USB power (we used the USB port on a Metadot Das Keyboard). Optoma claims a fully charged battery should last 90 minutes, but ours delivered only 67 minutes while playing a silent, looping slide show at the brighter of the projector’s two settings. Good thing it comes with a spare.



This projector is designed to be paired with a handheld media player and is outfitted with only an analog A/V input. You connect the projector to a source using either a special cable or an iPod docking-port adapter (both are included). If you want to connect the projector to a PC, the PC must be equipped with either a composite video output or a VGA output (connected to a VGA-to-composite adapter). That limitation pretty much rules out the device as a PowerPoint tool for the traveling businessperson, because a VGA signal converted to composite does a very poor job of displaying text.

Buy the Optoma Pico PK101 EP-PK-101 PICO DLP Pocket Projector - 4 oz.

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Honlai QingBar MP101 iPhone Projector dock

Taiwan-based Honlai's corporate website reveals some details and specs on their iPhone/iPod projector dock, see below.

• See image of 15" ~ 37" (50 cm ~ 1.5M )
• Video / Audio input for iphone /ipod touch or any AV composite
• Embedded stereo Speaker
• Docking station for playing and recharging options for IPod,IPod touch or Iphone

Specification

Method of projection	LCoS
Panel Size	0.44"
Aspect ratio	4:3
Focus	Manual
Lamp source	LED (3W)
Lamp life	over 20,000 hrs
Brightness	ANSI / 10-15 lumens
Contrat ratio (FIFO)	200 : 1
Resolution	640*480 Pixels (VGA)
Scree size	15" ~ 37" (50cm ~ 1.5M)
Video / Audio Terminal	Apple iPod / iPhone connector & Mini AV jack
Speaker	2W Stereo
Video Signal	iPhone / iPod touch Composite Video (AV in) / Composite Video
Color reproduction	Full 16.7 Million Colors
Power source	DC 12V,2A,AC 100~240V 50~60Hz
Dimension	82*111*72 mm (L*W*H)

Micron acquires DisplayTech, moves into Micro-Projector Business

Memory chip maker Micron Technology has acquired DisplayTech, a manufacturer of small display screens for camera viewfinders and display chips for Pico-style projectors, for an undisclosed amount, and is using some of its new assets to introduce today a new microdisplay panel small enough for placement in handheld devices like iPods or BlackBerrys.

The new panel was said to be a wide-screen quarter VGA (WQVGA) microdisplay solution designed to enable portable video and image projection for applications including head-mounted display products and embedded cellphone projectors.

It is based on ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon (FLCOS) technology, which Micron said produces superior image quality and color fidelity to other competitive micro-projector display solutions.

The device is offered as a single chip and is said to require “minimal power” to operate.

“The FLCOS microdisplay technology that Micron has acquired from DisplayTech has demonstrated success in the market, clearly evident by the fact that more than 21 million panels have shipped in portable consumer electronic products,” stated Abid Ahmad, Micron’s silicon and systems group director. “With Micron now delivering this technology, we are well-positioned to provide our customer base with global support and an even stronger R&D platform to further extend FLCOS microdisplay technology.”

The chip consumes only 85 milliwatts, and is said to be suited for applications where portability and battery life is most critical. The product adds to Micron’s DisplayTech FLCOS microdisplay projection panel line, which includes QVGA, VGA, SVGA and WVGA panels.

Micron said the chief attribute of its FLCOS microdisplay approach is fast switching speed, which is said to be up to 100 times faster than traditional LCOS technology. This is important for using field sequential color, which, unlike color filtering, produces full color on each individual pixel, blending color by very rapidly integrating red, green and blue frames in sequence, Micron said.

When compared to Texas Instruments’ micromirror technology, FLCOS allows for “a fully integrated microdisplay solution, combining the display panel, memory, image processing and light driver control into one chip.” This reduces size and power requirements.

DisplayTech, which is based in Longmont, Calif., has shipped 21 million small display devices to such companies as 3M and Kodak.

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