Movie projector in your phone, first video

Texas Instruments’s Pico Projector is small enough to fit in a cellphone but bright enough to shine a 15-inch-wide image even in a well-lit room says Sean Captain, author at popsci.com. TI first showed the device at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show - CES (I wrote about it earlier here). The Pico projector, at it’s current state works by shining red, green and blue lasers on a tiny digital micromirror device - the same kind of chip that powers standard living room projectors as well as DLP movie-theaters and rear-projection TVs.

Texas Instruments is also developing a new version which uses light emitting diodes to save money, power and heat. The Pico will likely first appear in a cellphone probably next year, said TI representative Kateri Gemperle. Gemperle also added the first projector cellphone will probably be announced on CES, early January 2008.