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Jul 25 2007 12:00am EDT

Motorola and Microprojection

Last time I was in Seattle, I stopped in at Microvision, which has been making heads-up displays for the military for more than a decade. These days, though, the company is onto a consumer product called microprojection -- a tiny laser projector on a chip. Build it into a cell phone or video iPod, and you'd no longer have to watch video on a screen the size of a credit card. You could prop up the device and project it on any wall, and watch with your friends as if it was a big screen TV.

This week, Motorola signed a deal to build Microvision's technology, called PicoP, into prototype Moto phones. Whether it will go further is anyone's guess.

In the meantime, Microvision has plans to make a stand-alone microprojector as an attachment for iPods and other video gadgets. You'd plug it into, say, your iPhone and show the video on a wall. Those products could be on the market for the 2008 holidays, Microvision says.

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