Hasta La Gadget!

Pocket projectors are fast heading towards impulse-buy status, and Chinavision’s Mini Projector with Wi-Fi and Wireless Remote $200 price-tag is as impulse as it gets right now. And as you may have guessed, it has some fancy extras.

The projector itself uses a 3-watt LED lamp, unlike the increasingly common focus-free laser models, which puts out 10-lumens of light. That isn’t bad, but you won’t be watching anything bigger than a sheet of legal paper unless you turn out the lights. Resolution is a non-HD 640 x 480 pixels. It also has a small speaker (and an audio-out jack), plus USB and SD slots for playing back media directly, an IR remote and it hooks up to a video-source via RCA cable.

Not bad, but the pizazz comes from the Wi-Fi, which lets you hook it directly to the internet and watch YouTube videos, Flickr slideshows and so on. It can do this because inside the projector is a tiny Linux computer, which is controlled by the little wireless keyboard.

I have no hopes for the quality of this kit, but you certainly get a lot for your money: There’s even a mini-tripod included in the bundle. Available now.

Mini Projector with Wi-Fi and Wireless Remote [Chinavision via Oh Gizmo!]

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