Evans & Sutherland was building a laser projector, both military simulations and commercial movie houses applications. Not sure what ever came of it since the groups split off and were sold. "M. Adam Davis" wrote: I believe you're right, and at this point it's more a marketing ploy for their DLP business than anything. If the market for tiny projectors takes off, though, they'll have an offering. Still, it doesn't take _that_ much power to throw some light on the average (non-sunny) wall. A 1W luxeon is bright enough for a 4" to 20" display especially with DLP. The laser bit is interesting though. I recall reading something about a 1 pixel DLP with laser projector. If they modulate the laser with a good switcher/pwm then they can have fairly decent brightness with low consumption for many types of images. -Adam On 3/27/07, David VanHorn wrote: > http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1283503.php/Texas_Instruments_announces_cell_phone_DLP_projector > > > Frankly, I'm skeptical. Putting lumens on a wall is one of those basic > physics things, like boiling coffee. > You either have the watt-seconds, or you don't.. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Moving in southeast Michigan? Buy my house: http://ubasics.com/house/ Interested in electronics? Check out the projects at http://ubasics.com Building your own house? Check out http://ubasics.com/home/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist