Wednesday, May 28, 2008

What is That Thing?

I have a theory about the future of Cell Phones, Cable and Internet. I believe sometime in the very near future that they will be one and the same. Meaning there will be no difference between the internet and a cell phone, and cable will be delivered to you via your cell phone.
When i was working at AT&T a supervisor said to me we want to control all 3 of your screens cell, television, and computer. Which got me to thinking about where this whole bundling of services concept, that the telecoms and cable companies are pushing, is going.
Then i see these and I realize I'm right as usual. What I'm interested in is the how this technology will be implicated and distributed to common folk like you and me.


From Crave.cnet.com

We're still waiting built-in projectors to become standard fare for mobile phones but, until then, maybe something like this item will make projectors truly portable. The "Oio," described as "the first truly mobile and fully operational nano-projector," is made by Israeli company Explay.

MobileWhack didn't include specs but said the tiny device was displayed at an annual conference of the Society of Information Display in Long Beach, Calif. It's also scheduled for release next year, unless we all end up getting video glasses that turn us into Borgs first.


So you like the idea of watching TV or movies on your MP4 player or cell phone, but the screens are just too small for you to make an accurate call on instant replay, especially if your next paycheck is on the line with the game's outcome. All that could change with new technology from Microvision, which claims to have built the world's smallest projector.

The company's Pico Projector, which is planned for release at this week's Consumer Electronics Show, is designed to be embedded in handheld products to project "photos, videos, movies and TV from personal mobile devices onto virtually any surface." Microvision, which makes such products as handheld scanners and wearable displays, says the resulting images would be "extremely sharp and vivid" whether projected to be the size of a laptop screen or a large TV. That sounds a tad like company hype, but this technology would still be more practical than lugging around your 60-inch plasma TV.



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