No presentation is complete without a huge projector and a projectee suffering severe arm strain from having to lug it round. Those days however might soon be history as Texas Instrument's new range of pocket DLP (Digital Light Processing) models hit the stores. The company has made a fairly significant breakthrough in that it has replaced the lamp, the mainstay of the projector, with LED technology. This has the twin benefit of significantly shrinking the size and weight of the models, while emitting much less heat - so for example users won't be able to fry eggs on them as they almost can with lamp-based projectors.
Three DLP Pocket projectors are due to reach the UK in the next month with the very striking and ultra tiny Samsung DLP Pocket Imager leading the charge. There are also slightly chunkier projectors - but we are still talking models you can hold in none hand- from Mitsubishi (PK10) and Toshiba (FF1). All the models will sell for between £500-800.
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Texas Instruments reckons they might have a life too beyond the board room with users hooking them up to their digital cameras and camcorders to show image and footage and using them to seriously expand the screen size of Sony PSPs. Future models are likely to feature wireless technology built in to enable fast and cable-free connections with devices.
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