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May 19, 2006
Personal Beamer From Cambridge
University spinoff, Light Blue Optics, in Cambridge, England, has reached the demo stage of its match-box sized personal beamer. It's only black&white for the time being. But the plan is to develop the tech so that a mobilephone, laptop computer, personal media players such as the video iPod™, and digital cameras can be used to project videos, photos, or clips forviewing on a larger display area.
The startup raised seed funding from angel investors in 2005.
There are a few teams in Europe that are working on similar components for small-sized projectors, such as Upstream Engineering in Sweden (image below of non-working models), which raised a seed round from Holtron Ventures over a year ago. Holtron is the same firm that backed MySQL in its early days. And there's an R&D team at the Fraunhofer Institute that have demonstrated a cigarette-pack sized projector.
But the progress in commercialization seems to be slow.
Posted on May 19, 2006 09:26 AM | Posted to Hardware | Permalink
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