Micro-projector turns wall into an 80-inch touchscreen

A Singapore company has created a micro-projector which can create a touch display up to 80-inches in size on a wall or other flat surface.

The two year old start-up called Touchjet has already secured funding for its Pond Projector on the Indiegogo crowd-funding website.

Built on the Android 4.4 operating system, the infrared projector will interface with a smartphone or tablet using a third-party app.

What the company calls a light processing unit picks up an infrared signal which then runs through an image-processing algorithm.

That process translates the location of the user’s gesture into a standard touch point signal.

The system can process thousands of points and dozens of projected frames per second.

A second product, the Touchjet WAVE uses the dame technique to turns almost any flat screen TV or monitor into a touchscreen.

The projector is portable, weighing 9.6 ounces and has a built-in speaker.

The Touchjet Pond Projector sells for £599 in the UK.

 

Richard Wilson

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