Smartphone can be Laptop or Projector

I think I was on Engadget when I read the article -"turning your smartphone into virtual projector". There they mentioned that some team of researchers is creating some centralized server which can help your smartphone to project its screen on external display (can be more than one smartphone doing so on single external display). So for ex. if you rotate image on phone it will do the same on external display. So it means this server replicates whatever you do on phone.


Above mentioned is one way to turn your phone into projector/laptop. But already there are some other ways -

• you must have heard about ASUS padfone which provides dock to replicate its phone screen on pad like device they provide. So one device acts both as phone and pad/tablet..
• Other is lightpad, a pico projector combined with a keyboard and trackpad. You can plug your phone into the device and it beams whatever is on your screen to a nearby wall. The main feature for the LightPad is that you can flip the lid up and turn it into a laptop with software that adds a virtual mouse. So its great device which would be around 300$ (expected price). Also its 2nd generation HD model will be available next year.