Portability Revolution

This weeks article:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/companyNewsMolt/idUKTRE51F3PF20090216

Rating: Good

Explanation:
Texas Instruments (TI) has produced what appears to be the next revolution in portability. TI has developed a chip that will allow a cell phone to become a mini projector anytime, anywhere. The new chip was unveiled on Monday (February 16th ) at the Mobile World Congress showcase in Barcelona and was said to be ready to be included in commercial products in 2010. The chip will allow customers to load a presentation or to surf the web and have it projected onto any surface such as a wall or even a table cloth. Imagine the possibilities for salesmen to have the ability to be at a lunch meeting, take out their phone and project their companies product right onto the table. A teacher or professor to be able to carry their class notes on their phone and walk into a classroom that is not technology enabled and display their content on the wall. I believe this last option is the biggest advantage to society. A school may not be able to afford projectors or computers for every classroom, however a teacher may be able to afford a phone with this capability and provider his or her students with a better education. Texas Instrument not only gets an award for coolest technology of the year but an award for potentially improving society. This results in a GOOD rating.