High-Def Cellphone Projectors Are Coming Your Way!
Long before Explay has come up with its own version of the Nano-Projector, researchers have already been experimenting on a cellphone that could project high-definition images. The device makes use of a silicon mirror suspended by carbon fibers which vibrate very quickly, which in turn allows a laser to be scanned across a surface fast enough to draw high-resolution images. In other words, it uses a technology which is known as Microelectromechanical System (MEMS).
Let’s just say that bringing a cellphone to your business meeting and using it as a high-def projector is no longer an impossibility… that is, until researchers manage to beat the challenge of keeping the costs down. This is possible with a little compromise: by using traditional silicon manufacturing processes until the final steps, and then introducing the carbon fibers only at the end of the process.
In the meantime, researchers at Cornell University are saying that a prototype may be available before the year ends. However, the commercialization of this high-definition cellphone projector may take a while to pull off and it may mean three more years of waiting.
Long before Explay has come up with its own version of the Nano-Projector, researchers have already been experimenting on a cellphone that could project high-definition images. The device makes use of a silicon mirror suspended by carbon fibers which vibrate very quickly, which in turn allows a laser to be scanned across a surface fast enough to draw high-resolution images. In other words, it uses a technology which is known as Microelectromechanical System (MEMS).
Let’s just say that bringing a cellphone to your business meeting and using it as a high-def projector is no longer an impossibility… that is, until researchers manage to beat the challenge of keeping the costs down. This is possible with a little compromise: by using traditional silicon manufacturing processes until the final steps, and then introducing the carbon fibers only at the end of the process.
In the meantime, researchers at Cornell University are saying that a prototype may be available before the year ends. However, the commercialization of this high-definition cellphone projector may take a while to pull off and it may mean three more years of waiting.
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