Motorola To Bring Projection Technology To Cell Phones

Imagine running late for a meeting at a client site and realizing you don’t have the right PowerPoint slides with you. You call your assistant, she forwards an email with the document as an attachment to your Motorola multimedia cell phone, and – voila – you’re good to go.

How does this help? Your cell phone has a projector as one of its features, which enables you to get to the meeting just in time, point your phone towards the projection screen, and the meeting is on the way. No set-up time.

A Redmond, WA, visual technology firm, MicroVision, signed an agreement with Motorola this week to develop a “pico projector� display for cell phones and mobile applications. The innovation will make use of Microvision’s ultra-miniature laser based display engine called PicoP.

The possibilities surrounding this kind of innovation are pretty exciting; mass adaptation of integrated projectors could be a significant evolutionary step in wireless devices, destined to inspire new innovation and make our cell phones even more flexible and powerful than they are today. Clearly, the MicroVision alliance is one Motorola hopes will help the company retain its strong market share – especially with the release of the Motorola RAZR 2 (the second-generation RAZR) right around the corner.