During the ongoing TechWorld in China, Lenovo unveiled a prototype of a smartphone with a laser Pico projector. But this is not an ordinary projector displaying the image... The projector - or rather, what it displays - responds to touch.
With the Lenovo solution a phone may for example display on a table or other surface a tactile keyboard or a desktop to play. This creates completely new possibilities. A large keyboard displayed on the table would enable a comfy entering of a text. On the other hand, in the case of games, the display could generate a virtual control panel and a bunch of other additives, extending the action visible on the screen.
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Musicians might like the idea as well - Lenovo demonstrated a keyboard instrument with a keyboard "drawn" by the projector. Importantly, the Smart Cast phone equipped with Lenovo technology is not much larger than a typical smartphone. The dimensions of the presented projector are 34x26x5 mm – so it would be easy to integrate it in the housing of the phone or for example in the phone cover. Obviously, the equipment presented at the Techworld is so far a prototype - but it seems that it's really close to its production.
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I suspect that with the commercial introduction of the Smart Cast, Lenovo will also release a software package that allows developers to create applications that leverage the capabilities of this solution. The company also presented the conceptual smartwatch, which uses a different, interesting technology. This watch would be equipped with an additional display, which using special filters and lenses pose an impression of a much bigger than it actually is. However, there is still a long way to the presentation of such a device...
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