Cool gadget turns iPhone into a projector
This is just cool. A little gadget called the MiLi Pro can connect to your iPhone and provide it with projection capabilities. According to PhoneSuit, maker of the MiLi Pro:
“The MiLi Pro is a breakthrough in iPhone and iPod accessory technology. It’s an iPhone / iPod compatible, rechargeable, micro video projector. The power of the PhoneSuit MiLi Battery has been coupled with the convenience of a portable video projector and speaker system. Watch all of your movies, video clips, podcasts and more with ease! Now you can carry your own personal movie theater with you, anywhere you travel.”
All that may be right, but for me the big thing is this is just cool (there are other mini projectors out there, for example, the Optoma EP-PK-101 PICO, but the MiLi Pro seems to have the biggest projection area and the coolest design).
This also totally underscores a trend that all of us in enterprise IT have been tracking for years. The consumerization of IT has unleashed forces that are driving technology capabilities forward at an incredible pace. We in the enterprise IT world still get customers coming to us saying they want to drive technology with their requirements. But the fact is the market and brillent technologists are driving technology forward in ways that are outpacing the imagination of most of our users. This MiLi pro is a perfect example.
Another example is the video Patti Maes presented at TED. In that she showed some of the magic that can come from pairing tiny projectors with tiny cameras and connectivity to the grid. And in doing so she and her team created solutions that no user I know of was stating requirements for.
More later.
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