{"id":64,"date":"2006-09-20T05:13:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-09-20T05:14:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T21:14:26","slug":"limited-to-the-size-of-a-matchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Limited to the size of a matchbox&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/low\/technology\/5359724.stm\">BBC today <\/a>comes news of a new type of projector developed in Germany.  The big thing about this projector is that it&#8217;s not big at all.  It&#8217;s under 16mm wide and 9mm deep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42104000\/jpg\/_42104778_miniprojector_203.jpg\" alt=\"Quite tiny really\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While that&#8217;s news in itself, the most interesting thing about this article is the closing comment : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other laser-based video projectors have been created, but have been limited to the size of a matchbox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an indication of the pace of change when people refer to a highly advanced and extremely complicated piece of technology as &#8216;limited&#8217; to the size of a matchbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC today comes news of a new type of projector developed in Germany. The big thing about this projector is that it&#8217;s not big at all. It&#8217;s under 16mm wide and 9mm deep. While that&#8217;s news in itself, the most interesting thing about this article is the closing comment : Other laser-based video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}