As much as mobile-phone technology improves over time, there's one aspect guaranteed to remain the same—screen size. Any bigger and you start creeping into tablet territory. That's why laser-based mini projectors have become popular. Connect one to your phone, and you can display a much larger version of your screen onto most surfaces.
雖然手機(jī)技術(shù)日新月異,屏幕尺寸這一方面保證不變。再大一點(diǎn)便進(jìn)入了平板電腦的范疇。這便是迷你激光投影儀受歡迎的原因。手機(jī)連上投影儀,便可以在很多表面上呈現(xiàn)大得多的屏幕影像。
Now researchers from VTT Technical Research Center, the Aalto University and laser-maker EpiCrystals, Inc., in Finland are looking to integrate mini projectors into the phone itself. The key is making a small, energy-efficient and luminous three-color laser light source that can be embedded without driving up handset costs. The researchers hope that their technology will reach the market in the next few years. (Of course, that’s just a projection.)
芬蘭VTT技術(shù)研究中心、阿爾托大學(xué)以及激光生產(chǎn)商EpiCrystals公司的研究人員正在試圖把迷你投影儀集成到手機(jī)本身。關(guān)鍵是找到能夠嵌入的小型、節(jié)能、發(fā)光的三色激光光源,而不會(huì)增加手機(jī)的成本。研究人員希望這一技術(shù)能在未來(lái)的幾年內(nèi)進(jìn)入市場(chǎng)。(當(dāng)然,這只是推測(cè)罷了。)
Here in the States, Redmond, Wash.-based MicroVision plans to sell its embedded mini projector chip to makers of cell phones, portable media players, digital cameras, laptops and even cars. They can't make your home movies and vacation photos more interesting, but at least your audience will be wowed by how you display them.
此時(shí),位于美國(guó)華盛頓州雷德蒙市的MicroVision公司計(jì)劃將其嵌入式迷你投影儀芯片賣給手機(jī)、便攜式媒體播放器、數(shù)碼相機(jī)、筆記本電腦甚至是汽車的制造商。這不僅會(huì)使您的家庭錄像和假日照片變得更加有趣,至少觀眾會(huì)為您播放的方式而歡呼雀躍。