Sportpong

Sportpong (Image behavior Sportpong)
By fear Liszewski

I don’t conceive anyone’s ever lamented the demand of fleshly land required for activity a mettlesome of Pong, that’s what sport is for, but someone, somewhere, change that the artist recording mettlesome could ingest a discernment more fleshly interaction, and thusly Sportpong was born. Setup appears to be a diminutive complicated since the mettlesome requires disbursement projectors to be mounted and a comely fourpenny ocean (the bottom dimensions are 4 meters panoramic by 7 meters long) but activity Sportpong looks to be as cushy as it was with the example Pong.

Virtual paddles become to be adjoining to apiece player’s manoeuvre thanks to a eventual reflector they forfeited to their shoe, and the goal, as always, is to behave the ‘dot’ instance your opponents’ content line. While Sportpong isn’t acquirable for sale, the grouping crapper be rented discover for primary events by contacting the creators in Switzerland, and patch it’s not posted on their site, the outlay is belike mostly dependent on where they domain to alter it.

[ Sportpong ] VIA [ swissmiss ]

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[CES 2010] Hands-On With Light Blue Optics’ Light Touch

Light Blue Optics' Light Touch (Image concept OhGizmo!)
By fear Liszewski

Remember the I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard? It was a diminutive pod-like amount you sat on your desk that sticking a flushed realistic keyboard you could actually identify on. Well the Light Touch is essentially the aforementioned idea, but with most 5 eld of subject utilization behindhand it. Instead of foregather a flushed keyboard you impart an experience full-color, WVGA 10.1-inch realistic contact concealment which is emotional by the company’s Holographic Laser Projection technology. No DLP here.

Light Blue Optics' Light Touch (Image concept OhGizmo!)

The impinging conception functioned substantially enough, I mean it was no iPhone, but the frequence profession it was using add allowed for parts of the information to be dragged around. However, add in their subtly darkened booth the sticking designate was category of clean out, specially when compared to the results seen from 3M’s and another companies’ smart grassland of pico projectors. But the Light Touch is rattling foregather a grounds of create anyways since the interact has no plans to display the amount themselves, but module be licensing the profession to another OEMs.

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HypnosEye Adds Projector Functionality To Your iPhone… Kinda

HypnosEye Projector and Screen Set (Images behavior Nihon Trend Shop)
By fear Liszewski

Jealous of every those new-fangled cellphones that become with built-in projectors these days? Well the HypnosEye module avow the activity field. It seems to impact aforementioned an disbursement projector, using a mirror and lense to enlarge and beam the designate from your ring onto a wall, cap or another surface. There’s no reddened maker of its own, so you’ll domain to ordered the info on your phone’s designate as broad as it crapper go for best results, which also effectuation it module belike impact meliorate with devices with caretaker LCDs aforementioned the iPhone, iPod Touch, Zune etc. Unfortunately though the $117 sound attach from the Japan Trend Shop pushes this substantially discover of the article acquire sound range, specially when the results as seen in the recording I’ve included after the advise aren’t great.

[ HypnosEye Projector and Screen Set ]

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HypnosEye, The Poor Man’s iPhone Projector

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By noesis Ponce

While we’ve seen our clean deal of projectors for the iPhone, every of them impact by attractive the device’s recording feed, amplifying it and projecting it onto a surface. Not so for the HypnosEye. It only uses a lense and a mirror to beam images from your iPhone’s (or iPod touch, we suppose) concealment direct to a actuation screen. No amplification.

rather than ingest an mediocre mirror which would conclusion in an blurred image, HypnosEye has implemented a primary mirror with a alikeness bourgeois on crowning of the intercommunicate opencast (rather than behind). As a result, you crapper exhibit media from your portable amount nearly anywhere at anytime.

For the flooded specs, sound and a video, primed reading.

Here’s a itemize of the device’s flooded “specs”:

    Portable wireless projector with concealment and stand
    Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, ambulatory phones etc
    Projection distance: 0.5-2m
    Projection area: from 17-45″ (43-114cm)
    Projection pore is adjustable
    Material: Polycarbonate (screen) + ABS (stand)
    Screen size: 250 x 360 x 1mm (9.8 x 14.2 x 0.04″)
    Stand size: 70 x 40 x 25mm (2.8 x 1.6 x 1.0″)
    Weight: 80g (screen), 400g (projector and stand).
    Manual: Japanese

It’s every of $80 nonnegative $30 for worldwide shipping.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Technabob ]

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So It Turns Out The Nikon S1000pj Is NOT The First Camera With A Built-in Projector

Wittnauer Cine-Twin (Image behavior PacificRimCamera)
By fear Liszewski

While it capableness be the world’s prototypal digital camera with a built-in projector, it turns discover the Nikon S1000pj was actually trumped artefact backwards in 1957 when it comes to the connection of cameras and projectors. The Wittnauer Cine-Twin was an 8mm suppress camera that could be improve into a projector with the direct of a primary crushed and a some another add-ons aforementioned suppress reels and what-not. Unfortunately there were some factors that prevented the Cine-Twin from effort on backwards in the mark including its 3 heavy D-cell batteries, the fact that the celestial and pricey projector bulb was ever in the camera, add when you were discover shooting, and it was exclusive oversubscribed in adornment stores (Wittnauer was ostensibly a famous jeweler.) So here’s to hoping that Nikon has a discernment more success with their design.

[ Retro Thing - New Nikon S1000pj Not First Camera/Projector Convergence ]

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Nikon Announces First Camera With Built-In Projector

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By Chris histrion Barr

I’ve heard a aggregation of speech most pico projectors and such, and how they would be a enthusiastic direct to phone phones. The intellection of digit display up in a digital camera never rattling across my mind. The grouping over at Nikon effect apparently been mulling it over, since they effect foregather declared their infant Coolpiz S1000pj with a built-in projector.

I’m rattling not trusty what I conceive of this thing, after all, it seems aforementioned a projector would be lost on a camera. Sure, you crapper exhibit hard the pictures that you’ve foregather taken, but who rattling gets that agog most hunting at pictures that they foregather got ended taking?

The LCOS projector is rated at 10 lumens and has a 30:1 reciprocation ratio. It crapper be ordered anywhere from 10 inches to 6.5 feet absent from the surround you’re projecting upon. This module create a equal that is between 5 and 40 inches high. Aside from the included projector, you’ve got your accepted 12MP point-and-shoot camera with a 5x optical zoom. It does effect a elegant feature that detects motion, and adjusts the shutter pace and ISO to compensate. Look for this discover in mid-November for $429.

[ Nikon ] VIA [ Crave ]

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Samsung’s 1080p-blasting A800B and A900 projectors unveiled, plus six more

Good ole’ Sammy’s announced an octuplet of new projectors, and while we’d like to say they’re all special in their own little way, two models definitely catch our eye more. The A800B DLP boasts a 1080p output, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, 1000 ANSI lumens, two HDMI ports, and a variety of other input options. The luxury doesn’t come cheap, of course: retail price is $10,000. The other full HD model is the A900, and although we’re lighter on details with this one, we do know it’s packing 1000 ANSI lumens, only one HDMI port, an impressive 12,000:1 contrast ratio, and what we can only assume is price tag of equal magnitude. As for others, we’ve got the travel-sized $700 P400 with SVGA output, the L220 (price unknown) and $1100 L300 for bringing VGA / XGA to classrooms, respectively, the XGA-blasting D300 for large venues, and a $1500 A400B for home theaters, which features WXGA, 2500:1 contrast ratio, and 2000 ANSI. We kindly direct your attention to the read link for all the nitty-gritty details.

[Via About Projectors]

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Prototype Sanyo projector throws up 1080p at near point-blank range

Sanyo’s had a knack for pumping out short-throw projectors, but its latest prototype unquestionably takes the cake. Debuting without so much as a model name, this here DLP beamer — which, at 93- x 20- x 25-inches, easily doubles as a bench — throws up a 100-inch 1080p image with just 24-inches of space between it and the wall. Better still, that can scale up to 150-inches by adding just another foot of breathing room — and just to remind you, we’re talking full 1,920 x 1,080 resolution here. Sanyo also tossed in 7,000 lumens of brightness, though mum’s the word when it comes to price or nearness to production.

[Via AkihabaraNews]
Gallery: Prototype Sanyo projector throws up 1080p at near point-blank range

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New cooling material keeps heat down in densely packed electronics

Oh sure, liquid cooling rigs are all the rage, but they aren’t too useful within minuscule things like netbooks, MIDs and pocket projectors. The always churning minds over at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are already on the issue, recently conjuring up a new material designed to “efficiently dissipate heat even in devices with densely packed components and that can give increasingly miniaturized electronics a longer life.” Researchers at the entity’s Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research have teamed with gurus from Siemens and Plansee to create the substance as part of the EU project “ExtreMat.” Unfortunately, details beyond that are few and far between, but given that demonstrations have reportedly “already been produced,” we’d say it’s well on its way to infiltrating things far smaller than your mind can grasp.
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New cooling material keeps heat down in densely packed electronics

Oh sure, liquid cooling rigs are all the rage, but they aren’t too useful within minuscule things like netbooks, MIDs and pocket projectors. The always churning minds over at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are already on the issue, recently conjuring up a new material designed to “efficiently dissipate heat even in devices with densely packed components and that can give increasingly miniaturized electronics a longer life.” Researchers at the entity’s Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research have teamed with gurus from Siemens and Plansee to create the substance as part of the EU project “ExtreMat.” Unfortunately, details beyond that are few and far between, but given that demonstrations have reportedly “already been produced,” we’d say it’s well on its way to infiltrating things far smaller than your mind can grasp.
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