The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived 220
mallumax writes "David Pogue of New York Times has reviewed the Pico, which is a pocket projector from Optoma. The review is quite entertaining (Pogue projects the images on to a plane's ceiling, leaving passengers baffled) and detailed. The highlights are: It is a pocket-sized projector which runs on batteries and can project images and videos from a variety of sources like iPhone, iPod and DVD players with a 480x320px resolution, with a maximum screen size of 65 inches at 8.5 feet. It uses a non-replaceable 10,000 hour LED lamp and a DLP chip from Texas Instruments. The battery lasts for 90 minutes and can be recharged through USB or with its own power cord. The device weighs 115g and comes with an inbuilt speaker which is practically useless. If you want one, it will set you back by $430."
AC/DC (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:5, Funny)
It's an LED with an anticipated life of 20,000 hours. That's, like, a war-crime's amount of PowerPoint.
Can 'War Crime' be a unit of measurement for terribleness and quantity?
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent idiot. First, it's a DLP projector, not an LCD projector. Secondly, it has a rated lifespan of 10,000 hours. That's more than a complete year of life, or 13 years at 2 hours a day. Probably more than you'll actually want to use this projector.
Also, while I'm boarding on flamebait, I'd like to point and laugh at the person who replied to me a couple of days ago when I posted about this claiming this device didn't exist.
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Our New Leader Has Arrived (Score:4, Funny)
Thank you and god bless.
You had me until that part. Sorry, bro, no brownie points for you.
Fun and Games (Score:5, Funny)
Then he spent some quality time with the Air Marshall and DHS ...
Re:Our New Leader Has Arrived (Score:5, Funny)
-1: discredit to the white race.
Baffled (Score:5, Funny)
"The people on the plane were baffled when they saw *porn* on the ceiling . ." and you thought cell phones were annoying when they came out . .
Talk about your feature creep (Score:5, Funny)
It's been done. (Score:5, Funny)
No HD, no wireless, no shaver. Lame.
This is where's it's at. [pomegranatephone.com]
Bad Eyes (Score:1, Funny)
I must be old. I read the title as "Pocket-protector"
Parent is funny. (Score:3, Funny)
"Pocket projector."
I can't believe no one made this pun before now.
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mod parent up (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:4, Funny)
What is a pocket protector doing with a lamp anyway? I've been ridiculed enough for using one without a lamp, why would I want to light it up and draw even more attention to it?
Is this some new kind of nerd bling?
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Now you'll be able to tell the geeks, because they will be the ones with the pocket-projectors.
Re:Mod parent up (Score:3, Funny)
A little known fact about /. : Anonymous Coward actually has infinite mod points, but since he can't help but post to every discussion, he reverts all his modding.
Re:3M did it first. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, and I should also point out it's cheaper as well.
Even better... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The lamp is non-replaceable? (Score:3, Funny)
The XBOX version or the PC version?
Re:Baffled (Score:5, Funny)
Lifespan? (Score:3, Funny)
What's the average lifespan of a shark, cause I'd hate to need to replace a burnt out laser on one of those frickin' things.