The HypnosEye cellphone projector is the lowest tech solution you’ll find to the problem of throwing your cellphone’s video onto a nearby wall. It is also the only gadget in history that sports an “adjustment cushion”.

First, here’s what the HypnosEye doesn’t do. It doesn’t hook up to your iPhone’s dock, or your portable media player’s video-out. It doesn’t use lasers or LEDs or spinning mirrors to cast project the image. And most of all, it will never, ever fit in your pocket. What it does do is cast a rather dim image onto a very nearby wall, without batteries or lights of any kind. Here it is in action:

The magic lantern is a polycarbonate and ABS box which has a slot in the base for an iPhone, or anything else that will fit in there. Mirrors inside bend the light from the screen and beam it out through a lens on the front, and focus is achieved by sliding the front section of the unit back and forth. The kit even comes with a tiny 14-inch-wide screen and stand.

It’s a fun gimmick, marred by its relatively high price of $117. For less than double that, you can pick up a real pico projector, and project a proper, bright image of, say, the Death Star onto your bedroom ceiling as you fall sound asleep in your Tauntaun sleeping bag.

And that adjustment cushion? It just tilts the front of the projector up at an angle. That is all.

HypnosEye Projector and Screen Set [Japan Trend Shop via Oh Gizmo!]