Neochroma mobile projector blows up cellphone screens

Micro and mobile projectors aren't exactly fresh goods anymore, but Neochroma Ltd. is looking to bring a simplified approach to getting big screen action out of your diminutive LCD. Rather than concocting some new proprietary cable or force you to rock a gaudy head-mounted display, the Viewmaster-esque Neochroma prototype simply requires users to place their (preferably clamshell) mobile's screen atop the mirror-packed device, and then the internal magic does the rest. Unfortunately, details about its inner workings are scant, but we do know that the finalized design should measure around 4- x 2- x 1.2-inches, utilize stereoscopic technology, and sport a viewing angle "roughly equal that of a 19-inch monitor at a 30-inch viewing distance." While already tested with Sharp's VGA-rockin' 904SH, we've no idea what future phones will indeed be "Neochroma-ready," but if these guys and gals keep their word, we'll be seeing all we can handle "within two years."

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[QUOW @ Feb 28th 2007 5:46AM]

Mmmmm, head mouth.

[elphantasmo @ Feb 28th 2007 6:01AM]

remind anyone else of this?
http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.asp?memID=2465

[TNP @ Feb 28th 2007 6:18AM]

Anybody else read that Necroma?

"I see dead people; large, dead people."

[Leoedin @ Feb 28th 2007 7:09AM]

If this is anything like the fresnel lenses you attach to TV's, it'll suck.

[Matt Hadder @ Feb 28th 2007 9:05AM]

Stupid question... what is the purpose of this thing?
You can't access the buttons if its laying like that. Or have I missed something?

[Mike @ Feb 28th 2007 9:20AM]

Its not a projector people... Stereoscope... Perhaps your too young, but those are things you wear. When I was a kid you could get one for like $5, it came with a few discs that popped into it and gave you a "3D" image when you looked through (due to variations in each eye, as the disc had a different image for your right and left eyes). Although this works off one screen, so it can't do 3D, but it is still a stereoscope...

This product is more of a "Sudo Projector," and thats pushing the definition of projector a little far...

As they said, it produces an image "roughly equal that of a 19-inch monitor at a 30-inch viewing distance." Ie, when you look into it, it produces an image that looks "roughly equal that of a 19-inch monitor at a 30-inch viewing distance."

Ie, not a projector...

Good game though...

[Matt @ Feb 28th 2007 9:21AM]

Wow just diss it... NO! I think its pretty cool. You could use it with a pocket pc and play videos and shit. I want one.

[Matt @ Feb 28th 2007 9:21AM]

Wow just diss it... NO! I think its pretty cool. You could use it with a pocket pc and play videos and shit. I want one.

[Mike @ Feb 28th 2007 9:26AM]

Now, I said all of that without reading the article... So I decided to go back and make sure I wasn't being dumb... So here it is, straight from the horses mouth:

"Our strategy relies on a product that provides excellent image quality, since the picture is shown in a viewer that protects it from stray light."

Please note how "the picture is shown in a viewer." Also known as, not a projector. Honestly Engadget... Starting to get kind of disappointed...

[Mike @ Feb 28th 2007 9:30AM]

RE: "You could use it with a pocket pc and play videos and shit. I want one."

No, no you really couldn't, as it is shown on a viewer "that also ensures perfect privacy." Which means, only you would see it, and you would look like an idiot looking into a pair of closed binoculars with a cellphone (or pocket PC) sticking off the top...

Ok then...

[Steven @ Feb 28th 2007 9:41AM]

I'm surprised nobody else has mention ed this, but it reminds me of those screens they used to make for gameboys. Anyone remember those? They were pretty much the same thing. You would attatch them to the gameboy and it would 'enlarge' the size of the screen.

[Matt Hadder @ Feb 28th 2007 9:58AM]

Mike,
Thanks, you jogged my memory. I had one of those 'ViewMasters' 3D slides of the Muppets or etc.

The only use I could see for is those with failing eyesight (babyboomers?) who can't see the small text on screens clearly.

Maybe thats good enough.

[Franssu @ Feb 28th 2007 12:58PM]

Yeah, ans the use of a viewmaster on a cellphone is ... ?

And the viewing angle "roughly equal that of a 19-inch monitor at a 30-inch viewing distance."... Yeah, right. A 19-inch monitor with 1 inch-wide pixels. Superb !

[chingkkay @ Mar 2nd 2007 8:56PM]

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