MiLi Power Projector..... iPhone's 70" Screen !!!

Love them or hate them, Apple products are here to stay. Apple has had the reputation of releasing gadgets that are very prone to becoming the talk of the town very quickly and sometimes even before they are released. A lot of the success of Apple products has to do with the gadgets themselves with their thought out design and functionality, and yet a lot of the success can be attributed to the accessories that are available for them. 

Take any Apple product be it any kind of iPod, iPhone, iPad or a Mac, the market is flooded with Apple’s own and third party accessories for it. The availability of such products and the flexibility and possibilities of expansion they offer are quite intriguing. And if you consider the rate at which manufacturers churn out new accessories everyday for Apple products, it becomes really hard to pick just one absolute must have accessory. Keeping that in mind, I simply am not going to try and do that, but the gadget I will be discussing today has to be a very interesting accessory for your iPod or iPhone to say the least. The accessory is called the MiLi Power Projector 2 and it is a mini projector for your iPod or iPhone !!!

Sure the new iPhones and the iPod Touch players have gorgeous screens and are in their own way very good multimedia players, but the fact remains that unless Apple makes some drastic changes to the new iPhone (highly unlikely according to rumors), you are still stuck with 3.5” of screen real estate. And regardless of how many pixels Apple tries to cram into that Retina display, you the images displayed are not going to get any bigger. This is where the MiLi Power Projector comes in, to give you the option of upto 70” of real estate to display your iDevice content.

Micro or Pico projectors are not really a brand new phenomenon, but the reason this one particularly caught my eye was because of its design. The MiLi Power Projector has a built-in iPod dock, on which your iPod or iPhone can rest seamlessly while being hooked up to the projector. The picture quality is above average in the Pico category and this little gadget gives you up to 2.5 hours of battery life. The device also comes with an on-board speaker that is considerable louder than the iPhone’s speaker but don’t expect miracles. It is also a walk in the park to set it up, just charge it through micro-USB, pop open the kick stand, place it on a flat surface, hook up your iDevice and you are good to go. 

Although this device may be pretty tempting at first glance, you have to keep in mind that there are still a few drawbacks. First and foremost, the device is not cheap, but that shouldn’t be a surprise considering the history of devices compatible with Apple products. Secondly, the availability in Pakistan may also be limited. You also have to consider that this is no HD projector with a gazillion lumens of brightness and you have to use thie projector in pretty much a dark room. Additionally, even though MiLi claims a screen size of up to 70”, the best quality tops out at about 40”, which is still a decent enough size for what you may be trying to achieve. Finally, the resolution tops out at VGA so don’t expect pixel perfect HD quality, but that has to be expected from a current day Pico projector anyway. 

Overall, the device is something pretty interesting and could provide you with loads of possibilities in terms of how you want to use your iPod or iPhone and in what way you would want to impress your peers. Also considering its very portable size, you can pretty much have it handy for whenever you want to pull it out and show off. Whether you really want this device and are you able to justify the high price tag are decisions that are totally left on you however.