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Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by gouranga »

camtarn wrote: post #12
sambeau wrote: post #3

This sounds great at first but I'm unclear about how usable it would actually be. Any pressure on the device would cause the screen to jump about. I could see it being ok in start-then-put-down mode for Movies and Slideshows. But how often do we use phones like that? I look at photos in tiny batches normally with one other person, usually in a crowded place: pub, restaurant, car. I rarely watch movies on my iPhone bu…

You could probably use it in more impromptu ways - e.g. by holding it above a sheet of A4 paper in a suitably dark pub, to allow an entire table to view a photo or video rather than having to pass a phone around. It wouldn't be stable at all, but being able to just beam a photo onto a random surface is pretty cool (although: cool enough to buy a phone solely for that feature? I'm not sure.)

Considering the local pubs around me (Wetherspoons I'm pointing to you) appears to be full of drunken old perverts staring at porn on their iPhones, I'm not sure this is such a good idea...

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by marcusf »

polshaw wrote: post #17

This is actually really neat. Another step along the 'phone is the only device you need' road. It would be great for quickly sharing stuff like a youtube video. Kids could use it to watch a movie in their room, or at a friend's, or grandma's. Similarly, it could be great for the travelling. I can see some really great augmented reality uses for this, provided there is enough developer interest. Don't scoff at it beca…

This does carry the hallmarks of disruption (in the true Christensen sense of the word).

If I were a projector company, I'd invest heavily in designing low power projection chips to sell to handset makers / make phone-sized projects to integrate with handsets. Maybe that already exists (beyond this phone)? I have to say I'm not well read on the state of the art here.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by millzlane »

Another great addition to the android family. Samsung is a forward thinking company unlike the other guys. Sure many of us may not use it. But it's a TOOL and many of us will use it!

My Android device has HDMI out, reads SD card and even picks up FM radio for Emergencies . Apple's iPhone is a deathtrap without the internet.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by philipdlang »

sparknlaunch12 wrote: post #2

Nice idea but heat and battery life will be an issue. There is a market for this but most will just hook up to their monitor or iPad. People serious about projection will must likely have a real one.

Exactly - what are the odds the battery doesn't actually last 3 hours? And how functional is it to project a movie on your phone, but then have a dead phone that you can't use the rest of the day.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by Schwolop »

marcusf wrote: post #42
polshaw wrote: post #17

This is actually really neat. Another step along the 'phone is the only device you need' road. It would be great for quickly sharing stuff like a youtube video. Kids could use it to watch a movie in their room, or at a friend's, or grandma's. Similarly, it could be great for the travelling. I can see some really great augmented reality uses for this, provided there is enough developer interest. Don't scoff at it beca…

This does carry the hallmarks of disruption (in the true Christensen sense of the word). If I were a projector company, I'd invest heavily in designing low power projection chips to sell to handset makers / make phone-sized projects to integrate with handsets. Maybe that already exists (beyond this phone)? I have to say I'm not well read on the state of the art here.

As a budding robot maker, I'd much rather they build a focus-less laser projector that's higher power and daylight visible. I don't give a rat's arse about handheld projection, but projectors on mobile robots are the future, and changing the focus of a regular beam projector on the fly by measuring the distance to the wall and then adjusting feels like a dodgy hack when I know there are laser devices in the market that just don't need to do this at all.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by Schwolop »

317 wrote: post #20
camtarn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could probably use it in more impromptu ways - e.g. by holding it above a sheet of A4 paper in a suitably dark pub, to allow an entire table to view a photo or video rather than having to pass a phone around. It wouldn't be stable at all, but being able to just beam a photo onto a random surface is pretty cool (although: cool enough to buy a phone solely for that feature? I'm not sure.)

I think you could patch up a stabilisation algorithm pretty quickly for this purpose...

Not without a pan/tilt mirror or reducing the available resolution.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by femto »

sambeau wrote: post #3

This sounds great at first but I'm unclear about how usable it would actually be. Any pressure on the device would cause the screen to jump about. I could see it being ok in start-then-put-down mode for Movies and Slideshows. But how often do we use phones like that? I look at photos in tiny batches normally with one other person, usually in a crowded place: pub, restaurant, car. I rarely watch movies on my iPhone bu…

Pair it with a camera, to close the feedback loop:

* The phone can track the environment and transform the picture to keep it stable.

* Augmented reality applications (a la http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/)

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by adam-a »

polshaw wrote: post #17

This is actually really neat. Another step along the 'phone is the only device you need' road. It would be great for quickly sharing stuff like a youtube video. Kids could use it to watch a movie in their room, or at a friend's, or grandma's. Similarly, it could be great for the travelling. I can see some really great augmented reality uses for this, provided there is enough developer interest. Don't scoff at it beca…

What I find quite interesting is this _disruptive_ design first appeared (to my knowledge at least) in Shenzen knockoffs at least 4 years ago[1]. Maybe there is prior art from Samsung but it seems like more evidence of the rise of hardware innovation in China and Shenzen.

[1] - http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/worlds-first-projector-ce...

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