Explay Colibri pico-projector module: 70-inch SVGA picture possible

Texas Instruments may have wowed at CES last month with their pico-projector modules, but they certainly won’t have the whole market to themselves. At Mobile World Congress next week, Explay will launch their Colibri mobile-projection module, a compact projector capable of creating a 70-inch image at VGA, WVGA or SVGA resolutions.

In fact the Colibri measures just 24 x 28.6 x 7mm, and draws just 1.3W, supposedly making it the smallest, least power consuming and highest resolution projector module in the industry. Pictures from 7 to 70-inches can be projected from 20 to 200cm distance, with a 10Lm brightness.

The Colibri will be used in the latest version of Explay’s OiO mobile projector, which promises 2.5hrs runtime from a unit just 50 x 100 x 14mm. It apparently uses “Always Focus”, which presumably removes the need for a manual focusing control, and can project onto flat or curved surfaces.

We’ll hopefully have a chance to catch up with Explay at MWC next week, and see if the Colibri and OiO are everything the company promises.

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