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Microvision's Show WX, the world's first laser-beam-steering pico-projector, is now shipping in the UK for £499 ($776 US). The US price is $549. The Show-WX offers 10 lumens and a high 848x480 resolution. Because it's based on laser, the image is always in focus! 

Microvision ShowWX

Buy the Show WX now for £499.

LG has filed a patent called “Mobile terminal with image projection”. It's a system that allows a gesture/touch user interface on a projected image. The idea is a system that identifies a pointer (finger), the shadow of the finger on the projected image and the distance between those two. When you touch something on the image, the distance is shorter - and thus you have a 'touch event'. Gesture interface is done similarly.

3M has just reduced the price of their flagship 3M MPro-150 pico-projector to $285 (down from $346). The MPro-150 uses an LCoS light engine that offers 15 lumens and 640x480 resolution. It has 1Gb of internal memory and a removable micro SD card (it comes with a 2Gb SD card). The MPro-150 supports Office documents, PDFs and Audio/Video files. We reviewed the MPro-150 a few months ago, and we think it's great. We wonder whether this price drop signals a new pico-projector from 3M...

3M Mpro-150

Buy the 3M MPro-150 now for $285.

Update: In-Stat has issued a correction to their PR: they say that by 2014, there will be 20 million devicew with pico-projectors, not 2.3 billion (!) as they said in the original PR. That makes more sense...

In-Stat has released a new report (Pico Projectors: One Reason Bigger Isn't Better), in which they forecast that by 2014 there will be 20 million devices with embedded pico projector modules. Mobile phones will account to over 90% of that.

"Although the integration of 'pico' projectors will occur across the entire CE device spectrum, the biggest push will come from the mobile handset segment," says Frank Dickson, VP Mobile Internet Research. "The reality is that the mobile handset market is measured in billions, creating massive opportunities for component manufactures. For pico projectors, what makes it even more attractive is that the market is hypercompetitive, with manufacturers always aggressively looking to add new features to create differentiation."