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The Engadget Spanish team just got their hands on the Samsung Show (the European, i7410 model) projector phone that we first caught a sneak peek of a CES. The Show’s projector is powered by Texas Instruments’ DLP pico technology, and though the fact that it packs a projector does increase the bulkiness of the phone as far as looks are concerned, the phone is still rather small and light. The Show can project an image of anywhere from five to fifty inches, with a 480 x 320 resolution. It’s got a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen, the TouchWiz UI and also boasts a 5 megapixel camera. There are plans for this bad dude to hit Asia and Europe (but no word on if it’ll ever make its way to North America), but we still haven’t heard when, nor how much it’ll cost when it arrives. Check the video after the break.

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Samsung Show hands-on and video at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AAXA’s recently rolled out a rather cute lil pico projector — the P1 — which boasts enough features to make it stand out from the pack, even if only slightly (there are so many to choose from these days). This half-pounder measures 2.3-inches wide and 4.1-inches long, and boasts a VGA resolution with a 1000:1 contrast ratio, and 12 ANSI lumens o’ brightness — making it a bit on the weak side. It’s also got a 3.5mm headphone jack, a microSD slot, 1GB of internal storage and an on-board media player, with anywhere from 45 to 60 minutes of battery life. This puppy’s available now for around $289.

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AAXA pushes out P1 pint-sized pico projector originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It may not technically qualify as a pico projector, but this new so-called Miseal projector available from Thanko is certainly at least somewhat pico-ish, and fairly unique as far as tiny projectors go. The stand-out feature, as you can see above, is an included speaker dock (2W, if you must know), which also includes a headphone jack and a line-out port in case you’re looking for a bit more wattage. As for the projector itself, you can expect to get an adequate SVGA resolution, plus a whopping 25 nits of brightness, a 100:1 contrast ratio, and an image up to 112 inches in size from a 16 foot distance. No word on a release ’round here, but those in Japan (or those willing to pay the necessary import-related costs) can grab one now for ¥39,800, or roughly $435.

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Tiny Miseal cube projector can dock with equally tiny speakers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve got ourselves some video of MIT’s new “sixth sense” project, which really helps explain the concept. MIT basically plans to augment reality with a pendant picoprojector: hold up an object at the store and the device blasts relevant information onto it (like environmental stats, for instance), which can be browsed and manipulated with hand gestures. The “sixth sense” in question is the internet, which naturally supplies the data, and that can be just about anything — MIT has shown off the device projecting information about a person you meet at a party on that actual person (pictured), projecting flight status on a boarding pass, along with an entire non-contextual interface for reading email or making calls. It’s pretty interesting technology, that, like many MIT Media Lab projects, makes the wearer look like a complete dork — if the projector doesn’t give it away, the colored finger bands the device uses to detect finger motion certainly might. There are patents already in the works for the technology, which the MIT folks have been working on “night and day” for the past four months, and we’re guessing (and hoping) this isn’t the last we’ll see of this stuff. Video is after the break.

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MIT’s “sixth sense” augmented reality device demonstrated on video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung’s Show (formally known as the W7900) made a brief but resonating appearance at CES this year, and now, the lucky kids over at PopSci have managed to acquire a few more juicy specifications as well as a few moments of coveted hands-on time. The forthcoming projector phone, which is apt to land in South Korea first, includes a 3.2-inch OLED display (400 x 240 resolution), quad-band GSM connectivity, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, a five megapixel camera, support for video calling and the obligatory ten lumen projector that shoots 480 x 320 images out at up to 50 inches. The entire device measures in at 4.4- x 2.2- x 0.7-inches, and it actually doesn’t emit a half bad image when the lights are all down. Have a look for yourself just after the break.

Continue reading Video: Samsung Show W7900 projector phone gets specced, demoed

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Video: Samsung Show W7900 projector phone gets specced, demoed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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