New Mobile Phone feature being developed: a Movie Projector!
A Finnish Company called Upstream Engineering may have hit on the perfect solution to the problem of navigating complex web pages on a screen as small as mobile phone's: ditch the screen altogether, and project the display on a wall!
ZDNet have the scoop, writing:
"Finland's Upstream Engineering is working on an LED (light-emitting diode) projection system that potentially could, because of its small size and relatively low cost, allow manufacturers to put projectors inside MP3 players, cell phones or other portable electronics for a few dollars.
Instead of passing around a phone to show off a video or a picture, the image (or video) could be blasted onto a wall. The picture brightness won't be as high as that of standard projectors, but it would let pictures on phones and music players escape the confines of the small screens on those devices."
Combine this with those fancy Projection keyboard devices that projects a keyboard outline onto a desk, and you have the mobile phone in 5 years' time: just a box with communications and electronic gubbins in it, but whose input and output is projected onto available surfaces. Makes perfect sense really.
