Pocket Sized Video Projection

First it was video in print. Now it's video on the ceiling, wall, how about the side of your tent? Several miniature projectors on or coming to market make it possible to view video from an iPod, iPhone and other mobile devices by projecting it on any flat surface. The unit pictured here (image from The New York Times web site)will sell for USD$350 when it's released in September. Unlike one of its competitors it comes with an audio jack for plugging in external speakers and according to the NYT review, it throws a quite acceptable big picture with big sound in a dark room. You can dig a bit deeper at the product's web site.

Because I can

Sometimes you just have to do stuff because you can. One of the digital video pioneer sites, Creative Cow, is offering the trailer for James Cameron's first film since Titanic, and in YouTube fashion they provide the embed code so nerds like me may offer it to good folk like you. It's called "AVATAR and I think we're going to like it, opening for Christmas. You might want to pause the playback and let it download completely before restarting, to minimize any buffering resulting from the size of the file. An annoying "feature" I've just discovered is that the blog page isn't big enough for the video screen. You can defeat that by using the "full screen" button at the far right end of the player controls.Enjoy;

Finally - Multisensory Marketing, From Americhip

I recently got my first exposure to video in print. Needless to say this is so up my alley. Americhip has created a video screen thin enough to include in greeting cards and magazines, and capable of playing up to 45 minutes of content. YouTube has a few videos presenting samples and if they hadn't disabled embedding I'd show them to you here but the next best thing is to link you up. Here's as good a demo as I've found. I haven't been able to find the link to my first awakening to this technology but I can give credit to CNET for pointing me to this article on the use CBS and PepsiCo intend for tiny screens/video chips in a fall issue of Entertainment Weekly, going to New York and LA-area subscribers. It seems that you really can make whatever you can imagine. Only a few months ago I was writing here about putting video in portable document files (PDF's) and imagining going on from digital print to the real thing - and here it is.