“For many people, the days of booking a conference room equipped with an overhead projector so you can display content from your laptop are over. Increasingly, you need to show off documents on the go — away from the home office, and maybe not even on a laptop at all, but rather on your phone or tablet,” Dave Johnson reports for CBS News MoneyWatch. “One solution? Turn your iPhone into a portable projector.”
“The ipico Hand-held Projector is a cool piece of hardware. Weighing less than 4 ounces and roughly twice as thick as an iPhone, it easily slips into your bag or pocket. Connect your iPhone to the projector via a pop-up docking port, and it can beam the iPhone’s display on a nearby wall,” Johnson reports. “The image can be as small as 5 inches or as large as 50 inches, and the 960-by-540 pixel output is surprisingly good for many kinds of content.”
Johnson reports, “The ipico Hand-held Projector costs $129 and works with phones older than the iPhone 5 (such as the 4s, 4 and 3GS). It comes with a short USB cable for charging the integrated Li-Ion battery.”
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