"WIRELESS: Pico Projectors Marry Mobile Phones"

Mobile phones are incorporating pico projectors for on-the-spot presentations, or for just sharing photos with friends, projected up to 100 inches wide. Four phones showcased that feature at Mobile World Congress. Look for pico-projectors to become standard on mobile phones within five years. R.C.J.

Mobile phones are incorporating pico projectors for on-the-spot presentations, or for just sharing photos with friends, projected up to 100 inches wide, according to Texas Instruments, which has downsized its digital light processors (DLPs) from the big-screen cinema for pico projectors shown in four mobile phones from Samsung, LG and NTT DoCoMo at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 15-18, 2010. Pico projectors shrink down the mechanisms of a full-size projector to the size of a microchip. TI's DLP, for instance, uses thousands of tiny mirrors fabricated on a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chip.

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