Toshiba Introduces Lumileo P100 Pico Projector

It looks like Toshiba is joining the pico projector race by offering a pocketable, portable projector that can images up to 65-inches in a darkened room. Toshiba’s offering is called the Lumileo P100 and is a compact device, measuring in at 116 x 50 x 18mm and weighing 96g with the battery in place. The projector, which fits comfortably in the palm of your hands, can display contents in VGA resolution with 14 lumens of brightness and a contrast ratio of 200:1. The P100 has RCA and VGA connectors and 0.5W stereo speakers.

Pico Projectors like those from 3M and AAXA Technologies have not caught on in the U.S. in part because early devices had high price tags and mediocre performances requiring a completely dark room for the displayed images to be viewable. Newer devices are becoming more affordable and are offering better performances with higher contrast and brightness, but the costs are still too high to take the technology mainstream as an impulsive consumer purchase.