Gear Diary Teach Your New iPhone 4S New Tricks with this Pocket Projector photo

The iPhone 4S is pretty amazing in so many regards and with this new accessory, the result of a partnership between Texas Instruments and Brookstone, you can now use your iPhone to catch video on the “big screen” even without an Apple TV and AirPlay. Here’s what the product page has to say about it-

Easy to use—just dock your iPhone 4 device and project on any surface. Our Pocket Projector for iPhone 4 is perfect for on-the-go travel entertainment. Its super-bright 15-lumen LED projector lamp ensures clearer, more brilliant images than other pico projectors. 640×360 native display resolution projects up to 50″ images. Focus adjustment lets you control image clarity while the integrated 0.5W speaker delivers the audio. Great for keeping kids entertained with their favorite videos on the road!

Rechargeable—powers your device, too! The Pocket Projector’s built-in 2100mAh battery charges via USB connection with the included cord. When fully charged, the projector may also be used as a back-up battery for your iPhone 4 device.

Take your video to go with our Pocket Projector for iPhone 4.

It looks awesome and at just $229.99 it is a great add-on to an already amazing device. You can order yours here on Brookstone.com.

We are hoping to have one for review shortly.

Gear Diary Teach Your New iPhone 4S New Tricks with this Pocket Projector photo

Texas Instruments DLP® and Brookstone Turn the World’s Most Popular Smartphone Into a Big Screen TV with the Pico Projector for iPhone®

Sleek New Case is the first TI DLP® Pico™ Product to turn Apple’s iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S into a 50-inch Home-Theater

Dallas, TX – November 14, 2011: Today, Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) DLP® Products and Brookstone announced the availability of the iPhone 4/4S miniature projector accessory case which includes TI’s DLP® Pico™ projector technology. As the first projector of its kind, the accessory acts as a thin sleeve that will allow iPhone 4 and 4S users to project video content from their phone or any app that allows for video output such as Netflix®, YouTube® and more on to any surface at a size of up to 50 inches. With this iPhone accessory case, DLP and Brookstone are showcasing the potential future of Pico as add-on or embedded within products, giving mobile phone users the power to show video content on-the-go, anywhere.

“With this accessory case, Texas Instruments DLP Pico technology continues to show incredible flexibility in enabling compelling applications of all shapes,” said Frank J. Moizio, manager of DLP Pico Projection. “This is just the first step in giving consumers the ability to showcase video content to family and friends and create a movie theater in the palm of their hand.”

Building on DLP’s foundation of creating the best images in the world, DLP’s Pico chipsets have the same technology genetics as leading digital cinema projectors. Pico-enabled devices are already being used to watch saved and online streaming videos, play games, project business presentations and files, and do much more, all with the convenience of being truly mobile. The entire DLP Pico family of chipsets offers solutions for creating an ever-growing array of product applications, including embedded cell phones, cameras, and camcorders, mobile projectors for consumer entertainment, notebook companions for mobile warriors, toys, AV docks for iPhone, iPad, iPod devices and other compatible smartphones, and more.

“The partnership between Brookstone and Texas Instruments resulted in a remarkable accessory case that turns one’s iPhone 4 and 4S player into a mobile home-theater unit,” said Ron Boire, President and CEO of Brookstone. “Brookstone’s mission is to find smarter, better ways for people to do the things they love, and the Pocket Projector for iPhone 4 embodies that spirit by marrying great technology with entertainment,” added Boire.

For a full list of apps supporting video out, consumers can visit: http://www.cywee.com/docs/TV-Out_Apps.pdf

For more information on DLP Pico™ products, please visit www.dlp.com/pico.

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About Texas Instruments DLP Products
DLP display technology from Texas Instruments offers clarity down to the most minute detail, delivering pictures rich with color, contrast and brightness in projectors for business, home, professional venue, digital cinema (DLP Cinema®) and large-screen HDTVs. Many of the world’s top projection and display manufacturers design, manufacture and market products based on DLP technology. DLP is the only imaging technology with a legacy in digital cinema where it set the industry standard demonstrated by the deployment of DLP Cinema technology in over 14,000 screens worldwide. At the heart of every DLP chip is an array of up to 2.2 million microscopic mirrors which switch incredibly fast to create a high-resolution, highly reliable, full-color image. DLP technology’s chip architecture and inherent speed advantage provides razor-sharp images and excellent reproduction of fast motion video. Since early 1996, more than 20 million DLP subsystems have been shipped. For more information, please visit www.dlp.com or follow DLP on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TI_DLP.

About Texas Instruments:
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to www.ti.com.

About Brookstone
Brookstone, Inc., Brookstone.com, is an innovative product development company and specialty retailer of products and unique gifts for home, travel and comfort. Brookstone operates 300 stores nationwide, typically located in high-traffic regional shopping malls and airports. For more information, like Brookstone on Facebook or follow on Twitter.



Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him.
  • Anonymous

    May be helpful also as a way for people that have poor sight to be able to use their iPhone better.



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