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I'm David Kondo a executive editor for cnet.com and I'm here with the pop video pico projector this is a tiny pico projector that attaches to your iPhone or iPod Touch it's only $99 it has about two hours of battery life it has a built-in rechargeable battery there's no speakers inside it but it uses your iPhone or iPod Touches internal speakers and that actually works pretty well the big question is how well does this actually project it has 960 by 540 resolution that's pretty good it isn't a bright projector as you might imagine so it really helps to dim the lights even a blackened room is really the way to go with this you can get pretty big but obviously the smaller you go the brighter the picture is going to be so I would say more like in the range of about twenty twenty to thirty inches is probably ideal for this there are a couple of small drawbacks to the projector one of the issues is you do have to have this in your hand or somehow proper dup it's not so easy to get a perfectly square picture when you prop it up also your iPod or your iPhone doesn't attach that securely to the the projector itself it has a nice pop out dock that's pretty cool its retractable this is very small and you can carry it around with you but your device isn't that secure so you have to be careful it doesn't pop off aside from that this is really the direction that pico projectors have to go that attaches right to your iPhone it has a passable picture it's relatively inexpensive at $99 so what I'd say is keep your expectations low and you'll actually be pretty impressed with the pop video it's not a great projector but it certainly is worth bringing along on the go as far as what you can project from your iPhone it is a little bit complicated you can do videos you can also do images and then there is a pop video app that allows you to project facebook as well as webpages you do have to launch that app in order to do that aside from some of those drawbacks as I was talking about this is the direction that pico projectors need to go that it's relatively inexpensive at $99 attaches to your iPhone or iPod Touch and you can take it on the go with you that's great the picture could be a little better but if you keep your expectations relatively low I think you'll be actually kind of impressed with this I'm David Carr Noy and that is the pop video go from micron technology and thanks for watching