@FooSchnickens - BPH Free: That's exactly what I thought it was. All in favor? 2/2 votes for bottle opener. Agreed - it is a bottle opener and 100% not anything else, period. Done. #picoprojector
I hope that these companies keep coming out with new pico projectors, so that in a few years they'll be really compelling. In the meantime, I'm going to take a nap.
still, it's a $100 projector.Give it a year or two and the quality/price will improve drastically...but by then everyone will be wanting 3D screens anyway which will be the new hot purchase for the two car garage suburbanite and would take up 3/4 of Adam Frucci's living room, being viewable only from the closet sized bathroom.
I have a song entitled "Battery Technology Needs to Catch Up" for $1.29 @ iTunes. It's also available on my album, "Usable Brightness from Needlessly Small Projectors will Consume Many Watts" for $14.99.
@VideoVampire: Now that's a stroke of genius, the "Why didn't I think of that?" kind.
Netbook with mini built in projector + VLC + USB drive = Portable Theatre
Well, you may need to pack some speakers which would make it a somewhat less portable theatre. Hmm... I'm going to again rely on your genius to figure this part out. And don't say headphones!
Yeah, this is what YOU WISH apple was like. Inventing genius products like this that actually address what people want, instead of them TELLING you what you want. Naw man, every apple product is the smallest incremental increase in features on their existing product line, and typically features that should have been there long ago and were glaringly obvious from the start. Hooray, long live copy and paste for the iPhone! Still no video. How long, apple, how long do we have to languish? Until the next big event? The one after that?
Apple doesn't invent. They increment.
OOH now it's 12GB instead of 8GB?!?! (never mind the proprietary microchip in the headphone cable) All hail the supreme glossy gadget overlords, OMFG, OMFG, pantswetting extravaganza! Pshaw. There are no quantum leaps like this in apple design anymore. Just baby steps. Call me jaded. And for the record, yes, it would totally change my perspective on them as a company if they released a product like this, and I would love to buy it. It's totally lustable. I do own an iPhone. I guess I'm just lamenting the disparaging lack of innovation from the company that's supposed to be the masters. I feel like apple has become the thing they set out to destroy: instead of being the small, smart guy who comes up with creative ways of giving you what you want, they have evolved into a bloated corporate leviathan who TELLS you what you want, and then repackages the same product with one insignificant new improvement, coasting on their previous innovations and all the while charging an arm and a leg under the guise of being a "premium" product. But it's all shiny plastic from China, and I see through the BS. I hope more people do. Apple, you'll see me in your store again when you have a genuinely new idea again. Or when you release this dock/alarm/projector combo pictured here. Which will be never. Sigh. End rant.
And the original iPhone from only a few years ago was an incremental update from what?
Lots of companies do incremental updates with major new products every few years. Just because Apple has a small product line doesn't mean that they don't release new products periodically.
As for premium, you're neglecting the software side of things. It is the fusion between software and hardware that makes apple's products so desirable.
@gloveofpower: Apple is a company that makes stuff. Computers, phones, software. That they incur your emotional wrath for failing to be God, Willy Wonka, Santa Claus, two guys in a garage, or whatever other unattainable expectation you have for them is some kind of phenomenon, not sure what.
That their imperfections cause people like you to dismiss not just their imperfections but everything about them wholesale is part of that phenomenon.
@TheCrudMan: And the original iPhone from only a few years ago was an incremental update from what?
It was an incremental update of the standard cellphone. It was slightly better than about half the dumbphones, but not quite as good as most smartphones, most of which still outstrip the iPhone even accounting for OS 3.0, which only adds a few features that other hardware has had all along.
It's a pretty package, sure, but "pretty" is just about all that Apple can throw on a product these days. They haven't developed anything new, and I don't see much else that puts them above competing products, just "on par" and more expensive. Considering that they are both a software- and hardware-based operation, I would think they'd work a little harder on developing new technologies to revolutionize the industry, rather then consistently stripping away basic functions, decreasing usability, and raising prices.
@nutbastard (Everyone come to snowmodo!!!): I suppose it's a matter of preference. Having played with one for a while, I found it was interesting, and the child-like glee of tilting it around is nifty at first, but pretty soon the utter reliance on touchscreen wears thin for me. The accelerometer, for my needs, is completely superfluous. As a means to mitigate the loss of buttons, it completely baffles me. Shaking or tilting a device as opposed to clicking mappable buttons seems like a bad compromise. I don't care that it's present, but having experienced it, I balk at the idea that it's more useful than physical buttons for navigation or device control.
My current phone handles IMAP/POP3 email, photos, twitter, built-in messenger support (Yahoo, AIM, Live), appointments and contact lists, web browsing, GPS navigation, and has a ton of storage space in case I need to carry files with me. It's very fast, has a great keyboard and very simple navigation. It cost me $75, and my unlimited data and texting plan is pretty cheap, and I'm not under a contract.
It certainly is no iPhone, but then, it already does everything I need, and isn't missing anything. If anything I would consider the Pre, based on it's extensibility (and more powerful processor), over the iPhone, but only if it were available at reasonable cost on a network I'm comfortable with.
I'm not opposed to owning an iPhone, I just don't see anything it does (for me) that's extremely useful given the exorbitant cost. I see a lot of apps that are just fluff, and not that many which really account for the price vs. the very limited power, functionality and compatibility of the device itself.
The only thing holding me back from current gen tiny projectors is the resolution. I need at least DVD rez (and widescreen) to play games and watch movies anywhere. Seriously, can you imagine being able to lay in bed and watch a movie on the ceiling? That's just effin awesome!
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I have a song entitled "Battery Technology Needs to Catch Up" for $1.29 @ iTunes. It's also available on my album, "Usable Brightness from Needlessly Small Projectors will Consume Many Watts" for $14.99.
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Netbook with mini built in projector + VLC + USB drive = Portable Theatre
Well, you may need to pack some speakers which would make it a somewhat less portable theatre. Hmm... I'm going to again rely on your genius to figure this part out. And don't say headphones!
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Apple doesn't invent. They increment.
OOH now it's 12GB instead of 8GB?!?! (never mind the proprietary microchip in the headphone cable) All hail the supreme glossy gadget overlords, OMFG, OMFG, pantswetting extravaganza! Pshaw. There are no quantum leaps like this in apple design anymore. Just baby steps. Call me jaded. And for the record, yes, it would totally change my perspective on them as a company if they released a product like this, and I would love to buy it. It's totally lustable. I do own an iPhone. I guess I'm just lamenting the disparaging lack of innovation from the company that's supposed to be the masters. I feel like apple has become the thing they set out to destroy: instead of being the small, smart guy who comes up with creative ways of giving you what you want, they have evolved into a bloated corporate leviathan who TELLS you what you want, and then repackages the same product with one insignificant new improvement, coasting on their previous innovations and all the while charging an arm and a leg under the guise of being a "premium" product. But it's all shiny plastic from China, and I see through the BS. I hope more people do. Apple, you'll see me in your store again when you have a genuinely new idea again. Or when you release this dock/alarm/projector combo pictured here. Which will be never. Sigh. End rant.
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And the original iPhone from only a few years ago was an incremental update from what?
Lots of companies do incremental updates with major new products every few years. Just because Apple has a small product line doesn't mean that they don't release new products periodically.
As for premium, you're neglecting the software side of things. It is the fusion between software and hardware that makes apple's products so desirable.
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That their imperfections cause people like you to dismiss not just their imperfections but everything about them wholesale is part of that phenomenon.
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It was an incremental update of the standard cellphone. It was slightly better than about half the dumbphones, but not quite as good as most smartphones, most of which still outstrip the iPhone even accounting for OS 3.0, which only adds a few features that other hardware has had all along.
It's a pretty package, sure, but "pretty" is just about all that Apple can throw on a product these days. They haven't developed anything new, and I don't see much else that puts them above competing products, just "on par" and more expensive. Considering that they are both a software- and hardware-based operation, I would think they'd work a little harder on developing new technologies to revolutionize the industry, rather then consistently stripping away basic functions, decreasing usability, and raising prices.
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ah but an iPhone is a *delight* to use.
everything else i've touched felt more like a chore.
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My current phone handles IMAP/POP3 email, photos, twitter, built-in messenger support (Yahoo, AIM, Live), appointments and contact lists, web browsing, GPS navigation, and has a ton of storage space in case I need to carry files with me. It's very fast, has a great keyboard and very simple navigation. It cost me $75, and my unlimited data and texting plan is pretty cheap, and I'm not under a contract.
It certainly is no iPhone, but then, it already does everything I need, and isn't missing anything. If anything I would consider the Pre, based on it's extensibility (and more powerful processor), over the iPhone, but only if it were available at reasonable cost on a network I'm comfortable with.
I'm not opposed to owning an iPhone, I just don't see anything it does (for me) that's extremely useful given the exorbitant cost. I see a lot of apps that are just fluff, and not that many which really account for the price vs. the very limited power, functionality and compatibility of the device itself.
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great point! that's thinkin' like an engineer!
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