Optoma Pico Pocket Projector - Tech Review

So this is my review of the Optoma Pico Pocket Projector. This is it. It is really tiny. I’ve got a credit card here just as a comparison—I mean obviously it’s not going to be as thin but just a look on top, you can see that it’s actually slimmer than the credit card and a little bit longer but it’s genuinely tiny and it really does fit in the palm of your hand. On the front there, we got the lens. Look on the sides here we’ve got USB and that is only for charging, that’s all it does. There is no digital and which is a slide show. And here we’ve got the off switch, half power and full power, brightness. On the side, we’ve got the AV in and this is where the cable goes to put your input in. So it’s got the three rooms on a mini jack and that goes in there. This cable it is applying, so that—this comes with. Also on this side we’ve got a mono speaker and there we have the focus ring which gives you a little bit of control over it. Now, if we look on the bottom, there is a tiny bit there which is fully tripod sit. I have to use a full size; it does come with this adapter, so it’s kind of like a little screw and it goes into there. And this you can push off is the battery and you get another on those included in the box. And so you get two to kind of double your battery life. Now let’s have a look at the kind of image it projects. Okay, so I’ve dimmed the lights and we can have a look at the kind of image it projects. I am going to plug in this AV cable. So we get our component out to the standard white red yellow or whatever you want them in. Now inputs because it does work on AV only. And you basically get all of your analogs, so VGA you can get a VGA adapter which I don’t have but VGA to component would work. I’ve actually bought a cable from Amazon. It’s an Apple cable and it’s a dock connector to red white yellow. So that we can get that and that’s—It also takes any standard input that uses one of that. So any kind of analog input like a DVD player for example. So, let’s untangle this wire. There we go and we’re going to plug this into my iPhone up here. And we’ll come to that in a minute. This cable actually comes with a USB port to power it. The iPhone runs out of battery pretty fast when you’re doing that but let’s not bother with this, let’s just leave it as a big old cable mess. Now this is the white and this one is yellow and this one is going to be red. So now we have Pico. To turn it on, I am going to put on full power. Now for the time being, I am just going to project on the desk in front of this so it would be the other way around so you can see and we can use our focusing ring. This is probably about as close as you’re actually going to want to go, really. Now, on the video feed, you probably see a little bit of flicking but that’s not very bad. I am going to get my iPhone and we’re going to put on the video.—for this but I am going to put an excerpt of—excellent podcast, car pool. So let’s go from—okay. The image is incredibly crisp. The only thing I could really—say I am not such a big fan of is the mono speakers are not very good but you can of course unplug the red and white I believe it is and plug that into a devoted speaker. Now, so I am going to pause this and there we’re going to project onto the wall. One thing I did forget to mention was that the resolution was—is half VGA. So I believe that is massive off the top of my head, 320x280 which isn’t too bad especially for just stand-definition video and it certainly not bad for it’s teeny weeny size which—I’m sure we can all remember. In fact the cable is probably taken up more space in the iPhone and the projector. Let’s have a look at it displaying a bigger picture and I’d estimate that that is probably about 50-inches. So, rather big. [Demonstration] So that’s Robert—and David Mitchell talking about hybrid cars on his excellent podcast, Car Pool look for it on iTunes on YouTube.com but more importantly that is the teeny weeny Pico Projector. If you got any questions, as always post in the comments and thanks for watching.