TI further shrinks pico projector only to cram it into a BlackBerry Curve; Well, kinda

Posted by Dusan on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 am under Technologies

CrunchGear’s Peter Ha got his lucky hands on the latest Texas Instruments Pico projector and from what he can tell they made quite a few improvements, at least in terms of size. As a matter of fact, they managed to cram the LED lit projector into a BlackBerry Curve! Before you go too crazy, you should know it’s not the full Curve we’re talking about here — they needed to put some things out in order to make enough space for their components. Still, it seems like a step forward.

Earlier phones with projectors were up to three times the size of the Curve, giving us hope we may actually see a decently sized mobile phone with a built-in projector sooner rather than later. After all the technology is there, and I guess we’re now waiting for further shrinking and better batteries.

The short video shows the Curve in action. Enjoy!


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  • 2 Responses to “TI further shrinks pico projector only to cram it into a BlackBerry Curve; Well, kinda”

    • Zak says:

      I want one!

    • Raidium says:

      Dude! This needs to come out now and it needs to come out with a TV-In port! Now that would be the greatest mobile addition ever created!

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