Texas Instruments brings sci-fi tech to life with DLP (hands-on video)

Texas Instruments brings scifi tech to life with DLP handson video

We've come across a number of DLP-based pico projectors over the years and while these products are getting smaller, brighter and higher resolution, it's the integration with other devices that's really captured our imagination. Samsung's Galaxy Beam, which we reviewed last year, merges a 15-lumen nHD (640x360) DLP-based pico projector with a Galaxy S Advance. More recently at CES 2013, Texas Instruments announced its new Tilt & Roll Pixel chip architecture and demoed a handful of other DLP-equipped products live on our stage, including 3M's Streaming Projector and Smart Devices' U7 tablet.

The company recently invited us to play with some of these devices and to show us other applications in areas such as 3D printing, 3D scanning, optical research, medical imaging and even automotive. Some of this DLP-equipped tech, like the Interactive Center Console, shows where we're headed in the near future -- other products, like Christie's VeinViewer Flex, exist today but remind us of something right out of science-fiction. Take a look at our galleries below, then join us after the break for our hands-on video and more info on these devices.

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Aiptek MobileCinema A50P Pico Projector

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Aiptek is bringing you their latest pico projector, the MobileCinema A50P. Adopting the DLP display technology, this travel-friendly projector provides 640 x 480 VGA resolution, 35 ANSI lumens brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio and up to 20,000 hours of RGB LED lamp life, and features a micro-USB port and an HDMI port. The MobileCinema A50P retails for $540. [Aiptek]