Next up is the PicoPro by Celluon, another projector that is beautifully designed, is also one of the thinnest projectors on this list, with a thickness of just half an inch. The device is also very portable, and should be able to comfortably fit in most pockets, with its length of 6 inches, and weighing just 181 grams. It also a has a very interesting design, giving an appearance of two bricks being stuck together, even though it is just one solid body. It also comes with a stand offering 360-degree rotation, which makes it very easy to find a surface for the projector to rest.
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Saturday, September 12, 2015
Best Portable Projectors of 2015 (So Far)
Android Authority
Next up is the PicoPro by Celluon, another projector that is beautifully designed, is also one of the thinnest projectors on this list, with a thickness of just half an inch. The device is also very portable, and should be able to comfortably fit in most pockets, with its length of 6 inches, and weighing just 181 grams. It also a has a very interesting design, giving an appearance of two bricks being stuck together, even though it is just one solid body. It also comes with a stand offering 360-degree rotation, which makes it very easy to find a surface for the projector to rest.
The projector light is rated at 32 lumens, which is the lowest on this list, but the PicoPro can get plenty bright, and offers fantastic quality as well, with its 720p resolution. It also comes with a infinite auto focus feature, which means that you don't ever have to worry about fiddling with the focus, and it works just as well as the laser auto focus of the UO Smart Beam projector. The picture is always very clear, and the image doesn't go out of focus up to a screen size of 250 inches.
Next up is the PicoPro by Celluon, another projector that is beautifully designed, is also one of the thinnest projectors on this list, with a thickness of just half an inch. The device is also very portable, and should be able to comfortably fit in most pockets, with its length of 6 inches, and weighing just 181 grams. It also a has a very interesting design, giving an appearance of two bricks being stuck together, even though it is just one solid body. It also comes with a stand offering 360-degree rotation, which makes it very easy to find a surface for the projector to rest.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
PCMAG - Top Ten Projectors of 2015
PCMAG
Celluon PicoPro listed first.
The Celluon PicoPro ($379.99) is one of the most portable projectors on the planet. It weighs just 7 ounces complete with batteries, and it's small enough to fit comfortably in a shirt pocket. It lacks some features that are common for pico projectors, like the ability to show images stored in memory. However, it more than makes up for that by letting you easily project images from a cell phone or tablet, and it offers some neat tricks of its own, including eliminating the need to focus. Most important, it offers enough to make it our Editors' Choice pico projector.
Celluon PicoPro listed first.
The Celluon PicoPro ($379.99) is one of the most portable projectors on the planet. It weighs just 7 ounces complete with batteries, and it's small enough to fit comfortably in a shirt pocket. It lacks some features that are common for pico projectors, like the ability to show images stored in memory. However, it more than makes up for that by letting you easily project images from a cell phone or tablet, and it offers some neat tricks of its own, including eliminating the need to focus. Most important, it offers enough to make it our Editors' Choice pico projector.
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Thursday, July 9, 2015
A Visit to Celluon
I had a chance to sit down with Pete Choe of Celluon yesterday. Mostly to get a feel for how things are going for Celluon, the kinds of customer response, and anticipation for the future.
It's a small office in Renton, Washington. There are several people working there. It isn't a retail location, but I was told that yes, I could show up and purchase a unit.
I expect good things from their marketing efforts. They have produced a couple of videos that were excellent.
Rather than do the extra work of turning this into a narrative, this is some of what I learned:
- There is demand for the product
- Sales are solid (Of course every company wants more.)
- Supply of the product is sufficient
- People love the product
- Best Buy and other retailers are still in the works
- Pete learned about "PicoTV" from people calling and asking about it
- They could take a large order for a custom product. (I asked if I could get 10,000 pink units, could they make that happen?)
- We can expect marketing of the product soon. This is also a clue that there isn't a supply shortage.
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| I took this photo 7/8/2015 - Got Pete laughing. |
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award
Celluon PicoPro
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Another plus for the projector is that it stays cool enough so it doesn't need a fan. That makes it as noise-free as you can get and saves on power, which extends battery life. Celluon rates the battery at more than 2 hours when you connect it wirelessly and more than 3 hours if you connect it by cable.
Setup is easy. Make the connection and point the projector at whatever you're using for a screen. One minor issue is that if you put the projector flat on a desktop or other surface, and it's not right at the edge, the bottom part of the image will hit the desktop instead of making it to the screen. The obvious fix is to use the stand that comes with the projector, but it works just as well to put the projector near the edge of the surface it's on.
Brightness and Image Quality
Celluon rates the PicoPro at 32 lumens, and I measured it at 29. According to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), 30 lumens is bright enough for extended viewing for a 21- to 29-inch (diagonal) image in theater-dark lighting, assuming a 1.0 gain screen and a 16:9 aspect ratio. For moderate ambient light, it's bright enough for a 14- to 15-inch (diagonal) image.
MICROVISION 40 Lumen Display Technology Assessment Unit
The complication here, as Celluon is quick to point out, is that some research indicates that people perceive reflected laser light as brighter than light from other kinds of sources with the same measured brightness. Celluon says that according to MicroVision, the perceived brightness is roughly equivalent to a 50- to 60-lumen measured brightness with standard projectors.
For testing with a PC, I followed Celluon's recommendation to use a 1,280-by-720 resolution. The projector handled our standard suite of DisplayMate tests reasonably well. Colors were a little off in some cases—with a candy-apple red and kelly green for example—but they were suitably vibrant and eye-catching. I also saw some reddish tinges in dark gray areas in some images, a problem that also showed up in a black-and-white movie clip.
Both black text on white and white text on black are easily readable at sizes as small as 6 points. However, some color combinations are much harder to read, because of ringing around each character, a problem that showed up with text on the Windows Desktop and with dialog boxes. All told, the image quality for data is easily good enough for PowerPoint presentations or for typical phone apps with large-size text. It's not suitable for working with a spreadsheet or word-processing document for very long.
The combination makes it an excellent traveling companion, highly attractive for most purposes, and our Editors' Choice pico projector.
The complication here, as Celluon is quick to point out, is that some research indicates that people perceive reflected laser light as brighter than light from other kinds of sources with the same measured brightness. Celluon says that according to MicroVision, the perceived brightness is roughly equivalent to a 50- to 60-lumen measured brightness with standard projectors.
For testing with a PC, I followed Celluon's recommendation to use a 1,280-by-720 resolution. The projector handled our standard suite of DisplayMate tests reasonably well. Colors were a little off in some cases—with a candy-apple red and kelly green for example—but they were suitably vibrant and eye-catching. I also saw some reddish tinges in dark gray areas in some images, a problem that also showed up in a black-and-white movie clip.
Both black text on white and white text on black are easily readable at sizes as small as 6 points. However, some color combinations are much harder to read, because of ringing around each character, a problem that showed up with text on the Windows Desktop and with dialog boxes. All told, the image quality for data is easily good enough for PowerPoint presentations or for typical phone apps with large-size text. It's not suitable for working with a spreadsheet or word-processing document for very long.
The combination makes it an excellent traveling companion, highly attractive for most purposes, and our Editors' Choice pico projector.
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