Mini Projector Built into Mobile Phones

Microvision says that it will unveil and demonstrate during the Consumer Electronics Show, a miniature full-color projection display that is small enough to be embedded inside mobile phones. The miniature projection display prototype, based on Microvision's proprietary Integrated Photonics Module (IPM), has been developed in collaboration with one of the Company's high volume manufacturing partners.

The image produced by Microvision's display is extremely sharp and vivid whether being projected to view an image the size of a laptop screen or further away to view an image the size of a big screen plasma TV. Currently measuring a slim 8 mm this extremely small display package, about the size of a "thin mint" chocolate candy or the generation two iPod shuffle, has been dramatically miniaturized to 1/10 the size of the company's original prototype shown in June 2006 at the Society for Information Display.

Microvision plans to demonstrate the projection display prototype at private showings for prospective global OEM customers. The company is showcasing how its display could be embedded directly into a device like a mobile phone, as well as be used as a standalone accessory display with a variety of mobile devices."

Posted to the site on 8th January 2007