Technoccult

TIRED of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? It may become worse. Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too, as they project them onto nearby walls or commuter-train seatbacks.

Pint-size digital projectors are in the works. These devices, when plugged into cellphones and portable media players, will let consumers beam video content from their hand-held devices to the closest smooth surface — entertaining themselves, annoying their neighbors and possibly contributing to a new warning sign: No Projectors in This Area. The microprojectors, still in prototype, use light-emitting diodes, lasers or a combination of the two to cast a display of up to 50 or 60 inches, or perhaps even wider, in darkened spaces and 7 to 20 inches or so when there is ambient light.

Full Story: New York Times

(via Robot Wisdom)

Wow. I wouldn’t have the guts to try something like that. I’d be afraid the cops would shoot me.

Projecting in a subway station would solve one of the big problems of video graffit, which is the expense of projectors bright enough to project visible images during the day. Having never lived in a city with a subway system, this had never occured to me.