Vivitek has announced the expansion of its Qumi series of industry leading LED pocket projectors, with the introduction of the Qumi Q38. The Q38 is 1080p resolution and weighs just under 750 grams. With the Qumi Q38 you can project up to 130” at 600 lumens brightness, 10,000:1 contrast ratio and it has a 30,000 hours LED light-sourcee. Additionally, there are […]
Vivitek’s new Qumi Q8 is a 1080p LED-lit pocket projector. The Qumi Q8’s LED light source is spec’d for 30,000 hours and it’s one of the first pico projectors to have Wi-Fi connectivity for content delivery. Ultra-compact in size at just 190x114x43 millimeters (DxWxH) and weighing in at only 1.3 pounds (621 grams), the Qumi […]
The Qumi Q3 Plus is an ultra-portable LED smart projector with an Android OS. Despite being only slightly bigger than a smartphone in size and weighing just 460 grams, the Qumi Q3 Plus can project a large widescreen image up to 100” diagonal that’s 720p resolution and it claims 500 lumen brightness with a 5,000:1 […]
Sony’s new MP-CL1 projector is a Bluetooth-based projector that uses Laser Beam Scanning (LBS) technology to produce a native HD resolution (1920x720p) image that’s always in focus. The 7.4 oz compact short-throw projector is 80,000:1 contrast ratio and can display a screen size of up to 120 inches at a distance of approximately 12 feet […]
BenQ America just introduced the i500 projector, a short-throw LED projector that’s just 3.3 pounds and 3 inches tall (about the size of a tablet). The i500 can project an 80-inch image from 3 feet from the wall or screen. The i500 is a 500 lumen, single-chip DLP that’s native WXGA (1280×800) resolution and uses […]
At InfoComm 2016, RICOH is debuting the KU12000 projector, a WUXGA (1920×1200) resolution, HDMI, and HDBaseT projector spec’d at 12,000 lumens and six lens options. It will list for $18,869. The RICOH PJ XL4540 and WXL4540 are laser-based, short-throw projectors spec’d at 3,200 lumens of brightness. Resolution is XGA for the PJ XL4540 and WXGA […]
Optoma has introduced an ultra-portable ML750ST short throw WXGA (1280×800) one-chip DLP projector with LED lighting — aiming it for both home and commercial use — but it’s limited to 700 lumens. It’s priced at $550. Weighing in at under one pound, the ML750ST offers all of the same features as its miniscule ML750 predecessor […]
A tiny start-up called LUMO PLAY is about to drop a killer-app (and I don’t throw that term around lightly) on the market – if they can build it. The vision of CEO Meg Athavale, LUMO integrates a pico-projector, Android software, a motion IR sensor and Wi-Fi into a wall-mounted sphere that makes any surface […]
There’s a Kickstarter project for a product called Beam that aims to build a pico-projector in the form-factor of a light bulb. That’s right, it would screw into a standard light bulb socket. The Beam projector is designed to turn any flat surface into a projection surface. Beam is a 100 ANSI lumen projector integrated […]
BenQ America has started shipping the Ultra-Lite GP20, a palm-sized projector spec’d at 700 ANSI lumens and with native WXGA (1280×800) resolution. With features including mirroring for MHL-equipped devices, the GP20 can play content from anything from a phone to a Roku player and can project up to a 10-foot diagonal image at 10 feet […]
Acer’s new K132 is an LED-lit DLP pico projector measuring just 5.5″ (L) x 4.6″ (W) x 1.6″ (H) that claims over 500 ANSI lumens at WXGA resolution (1280×800). The contrast ratio spec is 10,000:1. LED-based, the K132 has a long lamp life of 30,000 hours in Extreme Eco mode that reduces standby power consumption […]
Vivitek’s Qumi Q5 is a WXGA (1280×800) resolution projector that claims 500 ANSI lumens and a 3500:1 contrast ratio. It’s a 1-chip DLP that uses the TI BrilliantColor chip and includes an HDMI port, a VGA port and a USB port that can play content directly to the projector without connecting a PC. It weighs […]
A small company called Promate has launched what it’s calling the lumiTab – the world’s first Android tablet with a built-in pico projector. Using its one-button projection system, all the customer has to do is push the button and point the lumiTab to view his tablet screen on an up to 100-inch projected display — […]
Pacific Media Associates (PMA) has released the findings from its annual survey of manufacturers of projectors, optical engines and components showing a worldwide pico projector market forecast of 58 million units by 2015, up from about 3 million units in 2011. During September-November 2011, PMA invited manufacturers around the world who make components (e.g., imager […]
Vivitek announced at ISE a new pico projector called Qumi, targeted toward presenters. The LED-based pico projector is native WXGA (1280×800), with a surprising 300-lumen brightness spec and 2500:1 contrast ratio. The projector is also 3D-ready (via DLP Link), and Vivitek says it’s the first pico projector to be so. It weighs 1.4 pounds. It […]
Weighing less than an iPhone, Samsung’s first Pico LED projector, the H03, will feature 30 ANSI brightness in a lightweight, fairly cool looking design – but it’s not official, yet. Samsungs says the H03 has been designed to provide the world’s brightest pico display solution with an “ultra-efficient” LED lamp that gives more than 30,000 […]