Toshiba LED Pico Projector

The Toshiba LED Pico Projector is just 100 grams in weight, and 10 x 4.5 x 1.7 cm in size. Yet it outputs ten lumens.


(Toshiba LED Pico Projector)

SF fans may recall that his 1971 novel The Anome, SF Grandmaster Jack Vance described a pocket display projector:

Ifness drew from his pocket a tube of dull black metal an inch in diameter, four inches long. Along the flattened top a number of knobs caught the light and glittered in Ifness' hand. He made an adjustment, pointed the tube at the wall beside Etzwane, and projected a cone of light.

Etzwane had never seen a photograph so detailed.
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