Tiny handheld pico-projector with built-in speakers can turn any wall into a 70-inch movie screen

The YABER Pico T1 looks and feels exactly like a power bank, but within that benign appearance hides a pretty impressive pico-projector with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities that can turn your phone’s screen into a 70-inch projection. The Pico T1 also comes with its own built-in speaker, an HDMI input, and two USB-C ports for data and power delivery, along with accessories like a power bank and a magnetic tripod. Moreover, the entire device weighs a mere 5.12 ounces, measures just over half an inch in thickness (13mm), and fits right into your pocket just the way a smartphone would. The price of this entire setup? Well, about the same as a pair of AirPods Pro.

Designer: YABER

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The Pico T1 comes with a design that feels reminiscent of an iPod, with a rectangular design and a touch-sensitive wheel at the bottom for controlling your projector’s output. Place your projector on a flat surface or mount it on its magnetic tripod stand and power it on and you’re ready to begin watching content on the 70-inch screen ahead of you. The Pico T1 supports both wired and wireless connections, allowing you to either connect to your smartphone/tablet via the USB-C port or via Bluetooth. An HDMI port also allows you to hook other devices like gaming consoles, laptops, or cameras to beam images and videos directly onto the wall through the Pico T1.

For its size, it’s impressive how much the Pico T1 fits in. It’s got three ports (two for data and one for charging), a touch-sensitive surface, automatic keystone correction with a manual focus ring, and even its own 3W speakers. Sure, it won’t give you the kind of audio clarity you’re looking for while watching movies with Hans Zimmer background scores, but the speaker is surprisingly loud and effective.

There’s no battery on the Pico T1, but a USB-C port on its rear lets you hook it to an external power source like a power bank (that comes included with the Pico T1), which should comfortably last you through an entire movie and some more.

The makers behind the Pico T1 tout it as the world’s slimmest DLP projector, although it’s a claim that’s tough to dispute. That slim size is definitely a plus point, but it does present a caveat. The Pico T1’s biggest snag is that it has support for 1080p videos, but doesn’t project at a 1080p resolution. The projector outputs a native resolution of 540p at 110 ANSI lumens, which if I’m being honest, is pretty remarkable for its size and price… but it doesn’t hold a light to a 4K projector. It also doesn’t cost as much as a 4K projector either, so I’ll give it that. At just the right distance from the wall, the Pico T1’s projection is the ideal balance between screen size, resolution, and brightness, giving you a projector that’s an absolute bang for its buck. You could watch YouTube videos on it, TV shows, or even run mobile or Nintendo Switch games on it, which is what the Pico T1 is honestly built for. It also really makes for a splashy presentation when all you have is a laptop in your conference room and is absolutely perfect for camping trips.

What’s really groundbreaking is the fact that the Pico T1 turns the projector from a clunky home-theater appliance into portable, pocket-sized EDC. The Pico T1 is about the same size as your average smartphone and costs less than one too. For its incredibly reasonable price, you get the YABER Pico T1 projector with a 3-year warranty. You also get a power bank and cable to get the Pico T1 up and running, a magnetic 360° adjustable tripod, and a faux-suede bag/pouch to carry your projector and its accessories wherever you go!

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The Spot A.I. Camera is like Google Lens for children who are curious about the world

The Spot comes with a camera, a pico-projector, artificial intelligence, and the answer to every child’s perpetual string of “what”, “why”, and “how” questions about the world around them. Designed to be the magnifying glass to everything that makes up their immediate world, this handheld devices encourages creativity, promotes the asking of questions, and turns everyday imagery into stories to educate and fascinate children.

Spot fulfills the role of a toy, encyclopedia, and bedtime-storybook, all in a single handheld device. The camera allows children to capture objects, living things, and phenomena around them, while inbuilt A.I. helps children understand what they are by using optics, object recognition and machine learning. The in-built AI weaves explanations into storylike narratives, pushing the child to be empathetic, curious, and at the same time, get answers to every question they have. The Spot’s design combines tech and toy-design too, with a toyish form factor made up of simple geometric shapes, and the use of materials like wood and colorful plastic trims.

The rather noticeable lack of a screen comes with reason too. Spot fosters a natural form of interaction, getting children to learn by voice, rather than consume content by screens, icons, and apps. Introducing children to powerful technologies like object recognition and information dissemination, Spot takes the more natural route of being quite similar to the way a parent answers a child’s burgeoning questions about the world around them. By promoting curiosity and involvement, Spot battles the ‘Distraction Economy’ at a crucial stage of development. “Being ‘present’ and ‘in-the-moment’ is a skill that can be taught”, says Gadi Amit, founder of New Deal Design, and Spot elicits excitement and joy in the little things in life, be it a bird, a beehive, or even a potted plant. At the end of the day, Spot ties together all the objects it identified into a unique narrative, turning them all into a bedtime story that the device projects onto the child’s wall via the pico-projector, reinforcing everything they saw and learnt during the day, as well as enchanting them with the possibility of seeing new things tomorrow!

Designer: New Deal Design

Deal: Save 16% on the RIF6 Cube Projector

This tiny aluminum cube goes with you anywhere, and turns any available white wall into a big screen. It can project an image up to 120″ diagonal, and works easily with mobile devices.

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The RIF6 Cube weighs just 4.8oz, and measures just 2″ x 2″ x 1.9″, and even has a built in speaker. There’s a 50 lumen LED light source that lasts for up to 20,000 hours of playback, so you don’t have to worry about changing bulbs, and it connects via HDMI to iOS, PCs, game consoles or media players, or via MHL to Android devices. It’s also got a microSD slot so you can play video and image files in a wide variety of formats without a connected device. (Maximum supported memory card is 32GB).

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Native resolution is 854 x 480, but it supports videos at up to 1080p source resolution. It includes the projector, a flexible tripod, remote control, charger, and video cables, so you won’t need anything else besides your video source.
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It’s normally priced at $299, but we’ve got it on sale in the Technabob Shop for just $249 for a limited time.

Philips AmbiLux UHD TV Adds Ambient Light Using Pico Projectors: Ambelievable

Nowadays you can emulate Philips’ Ambilight technology on different TVs or monitors using thirdparty or custom alternatives. The old Ambilight tech that is. The company recently unveiled an updated version of Ambilight that uses pico-projectors instead of LEDs.

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The new system debuts in the AmbiLux, a 65″ 4K LCD TV with nine Ambilight pico-projectors at the back. The projectors are much better than the old Ambilights’ RGB LEDs because they also mimic the overall motion and shape of the objects on-screen, and not just their colors.

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According to Gizmodo, you’ll be able to adjust the projectors’ output and sync them with Philips’ Hue lights. Since the AmbiLux is also a smart TV – based on the new Android TV OS – you can use the Ambilight to make a huge ass visual equalizer for your music, whether streaming or from USB.

Here’s a bit more on AmbiLux from What Hi-Fi?:

Philips says the AmbiLux will be released in Europe and Russia in the last quarter of this year.

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Cicret Smart Bracelet Projects Your Phone’s Display on Your Arm: Remote Armtop

If you think that Google Glass’ and smartwatch displays are too small for you, keep an eye on the Cicret Bracelet. French company Cicret claims its gadget can project your mobile device’s display on your skin. Not only that, it can also detect your touch input and send it back to your device.

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Apparently the bracelet uses a picoprojector to show what’s on your mobile device’s screen on your skin. You’ll then be able to interact with the projected display as if it was your phone or tablet’s actual screen with the help of eight proximity sensors built into the bracelet. The bracelet’s own processor will analyze your input and send it back to your device.

The bracelet will also supposedly have its own onboard storage, although I’m not sure if it can open files on its own.

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Coundc too good to be true? Perhapc. It also doesn’t help that Cicret actually launched two different products in one fundraiser: the bracelet and a privacy app (hence the company’s name). You can pledge at least $399 (USD) on Indiegogo to receive a Cicret Bracelet as a reward. The company is shooting for a $600-$700 retail price, but even with the steep discount I think you should wait for an actual demo of the bracelet before you part with your money.

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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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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Texas Instruments’ Frank Moizio

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Love tiny projectors? Boy have we got the conversation for you! We'll be speaking with Texas Instruments business manager, DLP Pico Projection, Frank Moizio, who will be showing off new devices featuring the technology and discussing the company's new architecture and the outlook for pico projectors in the future.

January 9, 2013 12:30 PM EST

Check out our full CES 2013 stage schedule here!

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