Make Any Surface a Giant Touchscreen With TouchPico
Well, something has come that has the capability to eliminate the need of carrying laptops and tablets everywhere. So, can it do everything that your lovely laptop can do? Yes, even more.
TouchPico is a small Android 4.2 projector that fits in your pocket and can work as an 80-inch touchscreen. That’s huge. Imagine you want to play Temple Run but now instead of playing it on your small smartphone or tablet you can play it on 80-inch touchscreen.
TouchPico is crowdfunded at Indiegogo. It hit the crowdfunding to $55,000 within 24 hours of the project being launched on Saturday.
TouchPico is a cute and tiny handheld projector that can turn any surface into a giant touchscreen of 80 inch. Though it is developed on Android 4.2 but it is fully compatible with Apple Macbook or PC, Laptops.
It comes with an infrared stylus to that the surface(that you made touchscreen, a wall maybe). This stylus helps the projector to read the touch inputs. So, you can now do Skype video chat on 80-inch screen. Following are the features of TouchPico.
TouchPico is useful to all age-groups. Everyone from children to teachers, dancers, businessman, gamers and others can use it. You can use it during your physical activities also like in your Yoga practices. Play games on this big touch screen.
This cool high-tech device has got infrared detection technology that can track stylus. With this technology you can control and interact with the image that is being projected on the surface at 40 frames per second.
TouchPico has got a tiny inbuilt infrared camera that captures signals emitted by stylus. These signals are then captured by image converter to convert it into touch-screen coordinates.
This portable mini-projector fits in your pocket. It is just about the same size of Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone.
Crowdfunding on project TouchPico is closing on August 26. Shipping of this device will start around 15-30 October.
Early bid price for TouchPico is $329. Extra $30 will be charged for international shipping.