projectors
Gadgets
HypnosEye: The World’s First Ironic Projector
3:40AM John Herrman | You know those faux-retro plastic cameras? The ones skinny people in skinny jeans use to take pictures of themselves dancing, or looking very serious, but not really? This is that, as a projector. More »
Gadgets
1950s Stereo 3D Projector Is Darth Vader’s Father
12:22AM Jesus Diaz | I saw this 1950s projector when I was a kid. He was bad, he killed that Old Dude, but at the end the Goodguys blew up his Badass Star. It comes without its black cape and lightsaber, but it works. More »
Phones
3:06AM Danny Allen | The F-04B isn’t your average touchscreen QWERTY slider. If you want to slim things down, the 3.4-inch screen and slide-out keyboard can be separated, and you can also attach an 854 x 480 pico-projector in place of the keyboard. More »
Fujitsu’s Crazy Little Modular Pico-Projector Phone
3:06AM Danny Allen | The F-04B isn’t your average touchscreen QWERTY slider. If you want to slim things down, the 3.4-inch screen and slide-out keyboard can be separated, and you can also attach an 854 x 480 pico-projector in place of the keyboard. More »
Cameras
8:55AM John Herrman | I don’t think we’ve written a single story about the s1000pj without making fun of it somehow, and now I feel bad. Yes, a projector-camera is still a patently ridiculous piece of hardware, but I’m kinda crazy about it. More »
Nikon s1000pj Projector Camera Review
8:55AM John Herrman | I don’t think we’ve written a single story about the s1000pj without making fun of it somehow, and now I feel bad. Yes, a projector-camera is still a patently ridiculous piece of hardware, but I’m kinda crazy about it. More »
Design
Projectors Morph Boring Building Into Giant Pinball Machine
2:00AM Mark Wilson | Urban Screen, the same group behind insane 555 Kubik illusion, built a humongous, functioning pinball machine through facade projection way back in 2007. Why more architecture isn’t decorated with multi-storey video games, we do not know. More »
Entertainment
1080p Projector Battlemodo: Optoma HD20 Vs Vivitek H1080FD
5:00AM Sean Fallon | The idea of a $US1000 1080p projector is enticing, but are the first products to reach this price, the VIvitek H1080FD and the Optoma HD20, any good? Yes, yes they are. More »
Computers
Ericsson’s Spider PC Concept Projects The Keyboard And Screen
1:30AM Danny Allen | Over at the Taiwan Broadband show, Ericsson’s vision for the portable computer of 2020 uses a pico-projected screen and laser-projected keyboard. And though they’ve got a rough prototype (pictured), they imagine it ultimately squeezing into this bizarre spider-leg tripod design… More »
Design
Media Vehicle Provides Marshmallow-Shaped Mobile VR Experience
4:00AM Jack Loftus | Today I saw the future, and it was a virtual reality marshmallow chair. More »
Entertainment
Sanyo’s Two-Lamp PLC-XF1000 Projector Brings 12,000 Lumens
12:10PM Rosa Golijan | With the price tag of $US25,000 that it also brings, I won’t be picking up a PLC-XF1000 in December, but I must admit that the 12,000 lumen rating and super vivid images have me drooling. More »
Cameras
12:30AM Matt Buchanan | This is what it’s like inside Nikon’s ridiculous projector-in-a-camera. Whoever fell asleep and drooled on the approval forms to make the s1000pj happen, thank you for something that should only exist on paper. [iFixit]
Japanese Engineer’s Crazy Dream For A Camera, Exploded
12:30AM Matt Buchanan | This is what it’s like inside Nikon’s ridiculous projector-in-a-camera. Whoever fell asleep and drooled on the approval forms to make the s1000pj happen, thank you for something that should only exist on paper. [iFixit]