Gdgt managed to get the details of a mobile digital TV device built by Qualcomm. The device appears to be about the size of an iPhone and is named the Qualcomm Flo TV PTV (Personal Television).

Rather than streaming data to it over a 3G network the Flo will use Qualcomms terrestrial digital TV service to receive signals. [Read more…]

3M are launching a portable projector named the MPro120. The projector uses a new projection engine called the MM200 that has potential to be very good for the Pico market.

The MPro120 has excellent image quality that comes from a liquid crystal on silicon imager. An impressive 4 hour battery life is also achieved and it has a 12-lumens lamp to brighten it up. The lamp can last up to 20,000 hours which isn’t a small number either. [Read more…]

The Portable HDTV is capable of receiving high-definition broadcasts and displays them on it’s 4 1/4″ screen. The screen is set out in a 16:9 aspect ratio and has a 60 degree viewing angle.

The confusing part is why they call it a HDTV though. At a display resolution of 480 x 272 it certainly isn’t HD standards. The only HD part of it is that it can receive HD digital broadcasts. [Read more…]

Samsung have launched the SP-P410M compact projector over in South Korea and Germany. It has a 170 ANSI Lumen brightness rating that is achieved by a bright LED and also supports resolutions of up to 1280 x 1024 pixels although it can only throw an SVGA resolution of 800 x 600 pixels to the wall with a contrast ratio of 1000:1.

The compact LED projector measures 147.5mm x 66.3mm x 145.5mm making it fairly small although certainly not Pico projector size.

Formats supported on the Samsung SP-P410M are MP3, WMA, PCM, ADPCM, OGG, AAC-LC, AMR-WB, WAV, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, HDP as well as a a number of file extensions that includes the usual .mpg, .vob, .avi etc… [Read more…]

A Touchable Holographic display was on show over at Siggraph recently. As you will more than be aware, holography cannot really be touched. It’s just floating images that when you reach and grab them your hand slides right through them.

A company have been working on tactile feedback for holography and have created a system which uses 2 wii remotes to detect location of a real object (ie, your hand for example) and then an airborne ultrasound tactile display is used by giving feedback on the users hand. [Read more…]

AAXA have created their second generation Pico projector. It is named the P2 and has upped the resolution to SVGA which is 800 x 600 pixels. A 33 lumen LED light source throws an image up to 80″ in size. Currently, this is the highest spec Pico projector on the market (well, almost as it’s still only available by pre-order).

The projector measures 4.3″x2.1″x1″, and weights 260 grams. The unit has a VGA input which accepts a resolution of 1280 x 720 and batter life for the unit is just 35 minutes which you have to admit, it’s the greatest. However, optional batteries are available that will see the projector run for either 70 or 180 additional minutes. [Read more…]

The Samsung SNE-50K is a new eBook Reader that enters the already competitive eBook Reader market. To be successful it will need to go up against the Amazon Kindle that is backed by a huge brand as well as the Plastic Logic eBook Reader that has Barnes & Noble providing eBooks for it.

The SNE-50K has a 5 inch screen that has a resolution of 600×800 pixels. It weighs 6.5 ounces and has half a gig of memory. The device also has handwriting recognition built in and can read text files, PDF’s and MS office documents. [Read more…]

Barnes & Noble have announced that they will be the exclusive eBookstore for the eReader built by Plastic Logic. The Plastic Logic eBookreader is an ultra thin reader that measures 8.5″ x 11″ and uses eInk for a very clear and crisp display. [Read more…]

Light Blue Optics, based near Cambridge in the UK, have created a new portable projector that uses laser as the light source. Using laser has a number of advantages over LED and bulb based projectors in that it can produce a higher quality images and also the video produced will always be in focus.

The first generation of these laser projectors have been built and these first models will be making their way to OEM’s by the end of this year which should mean we start seeing them become available first half of next year. [Read more…]

Hitachi have created an electronic blackboard. This version is a new and improved version of the PX-DUO-50 that was transformed.

The electronic blackboards have PC’s built in and use 2 infrared cameras and a lens that has a viewing angle of 170°. The infrared cameras allow the screen to be touched and the co-ordinates detected and fed back to the PC which then updates the display. [Read more…]

Sega Toys have unveiled the Uchiagehanabi. The Uchiagehanabi is a small projector that gives an audio and visual display of a firework show in your home. [Read more…]

Fujitsu and N-Trig have teamed up to created a new touchscreen controller named DuoSense. The display is multitouch and will allow for 10 or more simultaneous touch points at very high refresh rates. Like it’s predecessor (also named the DuoSense) this controller also uses capacitive touch making it possible to use both pen and fingers if needed. The display is transparent and sits on top of your display. The electronics needed to run the DuoSense are tucked around the edge of the frame. [Read more…]