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The HypnosEye Projector is a completely wireless projector and is a cheap and easy way for you to display visual media from your iPhone.  It actually works with any phone that has an adjustable brightness as it uses a special mirror with a reflection agent at the top of the glass instead of the bottom making for a more clear image. …Continue reading: HypnosEye Projector For Your iPhone

In what appears to be a product I’ve never seen the likes of, the Sparkz Projector Dock is a fresh and pricey new addition to aftermarket iPhone accessories.  The built-in pico projector accepts a variety of A/V and VGA inputs and is capable of displaying 640 x 480 resolutions at up to 60 inches.  Snaps.

There’s also some little stereo speakers attached but I can’t imagine them doing much banging.  The dock also charges your iPhone and it comes with a tri-pod.  At a $495 price tag, early adopters will want to make sure this is a quality product.  Maybe the video below will help.

[via Ubergizmo]

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Way back in the depths of 2005, we talked about a kind of ultra portable scanner called the Docupen.  Well, the company that makes these has just released a brand new kind that they’re hoping will be so extreme you’ll likely ignore the mostly pointlessness of the device and buy several.  It’s the Docupen X-Series, and the X is almost certainly for X-treeeeeeme.

The Docupen is essentially a scanner the size of a standard ballpoint pen, and allows you to scan a document or a photo into JPEG format by rolling the scanner part along the surface of the thing you want scanned.  It has 64 gigs of internal memory, microSD card compatibility, and can scan to 600 dpi, which is no mean feat for a pen-sized scanner.

If you do a lot of photo manipulation or deal with a lot of actual paper documents–like, say, business cards at trade shows–then you might feel pretty good about the Docupen X-Series.  But you likely won’t feel good about its price, a whopping $369.

Chances are you’ll almost never need to use this, and chances are even greater that you’ll lose it in short order anyway, so it’s probably not what you’d call a good investment.

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If you’ve looked at your job and thought, you know, it’s great here and all, but what we need are more random Jedi duels, then do I have the gadget for you!

Five words: Star Wars Lightsaber Laser Pointers.

I know, I just said a whole volume of geektastic joy in one handy little five-word burst, but it is exactly what I said it is, a red laser pointer (what, no color options?  Can’t I have something other than Sith Red?  Why no love for any of the half-dozen or so Jedi colors?) that projects a small beam of red light.  Call attention to points in your PowerPoint presentation.  Freak out your cat.  Grab a magnifying glass and try in vain to fry ants.  Stage duels on your lunch break.

There are so many uses for this, but the clearest use of all is to clearly denote that YOU, sir (or ma’am as the case may be) are a serious Star Wars fan, true believer.  And if you’ve got $14.99, you too can slice up your choice of foes.

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Here’s a new and interesting piece of gadget news for you this morning, folks–I’ve just heard about the Epson Dreamio, a strange projector with one really impressive feature.  That strange feature?  A built in DVD player.

Most projectors don’t include DVD players for a handful of good reasons–it’s entirely too simple in most cases to hook up a DVD player to a projector is tops among them.  But also included are the fact that they usually end up looking like thirty miles of bad road and how they end up badly overpriced.  This would definitely seem to be the case with the thirteen hundred dollar Epson Dreamio, especially given that the projector itself is a 720p as opposed to a 1080p.   It does, by way of consolation, include a USB port and an HDMI slot for hooking in extra components, so it clearly wants to go the distance as far as your home theater setup goes.

So for movie buffs who want that projector experience but can’t offer a lot of space for components, the Epson Dreamio may be what you’re looking for.

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No shrooms necessary for this here video kiddies.  This madly expensive billiards projection/tracking system ($200k) is a pretty innovative way to make pool awesome no matter how bad you suck at it.

As you play the game, you can uncover a hidden picture as the balls pass over the felt.  Other fancies include flame trails that follow the balls and rippling water effects.  Apparently new software is being written to make the tracking system more useful as well.

It would be able to teach you trick shots or simply show you the angle lines and options for potential shots.  While the price tag will keep this system away from most consumers, hopefully we’ll soon see this in bars or clubs in high-profile cities such and New York City and Los Angeles. …Continue reading: Obscura Cuelight: $200k With Pool Table Sold Separately (video)

If you’ve got a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars handy, and you really want incredible definition in your movies,  then JVC’s newest offering, the OLA-RS4000, might be exactly what you need.

It premiered at the CEDIA Expo in Atlanta, and is a ten megapixel LCD projector that can show movies on four screens simultaneously in full HD or WUXGA resolution.

This is of course a downright amazing projector, and considering how it’s priced it had really better be.  In fact, some might even say that this is overkill, but most of them will probably be shouted down by the eager fan boys desperate to get their hands on one of these even though there’s no way they can afford one.

And here’s one final bit of good news– they won’t even come out for another month yet, so you have plenty of time to line up that second through fourth mortgages on the house so you can afford one.

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The MPro 120 Pocket Projector, from the constantly-innovating minds at 3M, promises to be part of a “new generation of mini-projectors”.  Featuring a battery life of two to four hours, it has built in speakers and can project an image up to a maximum size of fifty inches.  The MPro has a planned sales price of two hundred ninety nine pounds (somewhere around six hundred dollars) and though it’s tiny and compact, I can’t say as I can find anything resembling a resolution size in this.  That’s got me concerned.

A camera this tiny really isn’t a cause for celebration and happiness–in fact, what it is is a horrible sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that a whole lot of people are about to get taken for a ride once they discover that their new miniprojector has all the resolution of looking out a window covered in snot. I found the specs at 3M, however, and they don’t look terrible–1280 x 768 resolution, for starters–but without seeing it in operation, only guesses about image quality can be made.  Add to it the fact that you can’t replace the bulb, ever, and that’s an even more worrisome point.

Small or no, this one still doesn’t bode well for people want a much better display for their laptop.

[via Daily Mail]

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So about that Nikon Coolpix S1000pj digital point and shoot.  Well, things got firmed up today when What Digital Camera got a complete hands on with the device.  As suspected, and detailed yesterday, it’s a 12 megapixel shooter with a built-in projector that can throw up a 40-inch image onto any surface.  On top of the camera is an aperture control (sorry, no auto focus yet) while the back of the camera includes a 2.7-inch LCD, two pieces of info we didn’t know yesterday.  There’s no official word from Nikon as of yet, so we’re still left wondering what the lumen and contrast ratio is.

[Thanks, Richard]

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The digital point and shoot rumorville is a stir again with news that Nikon is on the cusp of releasing a 12 megapixel compact shooter with a built-in projector that can pop out a 40-inch image.  Talk about synergy, the Coolpix S1000pj package is said to also include a stand and remote, which should make its projector abilities all the more useful in those mass audience scenarios.  And of course it does the typical point and shoot stuff, such as 5x optical zoom, face priority and image stabilization.  But with all this tech inevitably comes a platinum galvanized price tag of about $590 US.  It’s said to be arriving this September, but we can’t confirm that at this time.

[via Engadget]

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