As a teacher, imagine having a low-cost smartphone or tablet that can project your screen onto any flat surface, even in remote areas. This is the technology that Akyumen Industries has developed. The website has very little information at this stage, but you can find more information in a press release about the project. This is revolutionary for education, particularly for those teaching non-traditional or remote environments. Teachers can show anything from their smartphone or tablet, without the necessity of any additional equipment. Akyumen’s 5G smartphones and tablets use nanotechnology to make this possible. I can see this making a huge difference to mobile teaching and learning as it is accessible anywhere, and they promise a low-cost “to help the less advantaged”.
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From the perspective of an experienced teacher,, using a handheld mobile projector raises a few concerns:
1. Lighting : You and your students would have to find an environment dark enough to see the projection (something hard to do if planning to use this outside unless you are on a rare overnight camping field trip). If the intent is to use it around the school it would be easier just to roll around a projector cart.
2. Size: The projected image would need to be quite large if intended for more than a handful of students to view.
3. Position: As many teachers know, finding that sweet spot for the projected image takes a while and once found you never want to move it again! I see this being near impossible unless this device comes with a tripod as holding it in your hand will be unbearably shaky.
This post reminds me of Samsung Galaxy Beam launched in July, 2010 and its sequel, Galaxy Beam 2 introduced in July, 2012.
The built-in beam projector demo starts at 4:35 in this review video.
https://youtu.be/ZoM4Bp3la_Q?t=275
The price of these projector phones were about 2 times higher than iPhones (at that time) and I can assume that the high price tag greatly affected its affordability. So, Akyumen’s approach to developing budget-friendly mobile devices with a build-in projector for educational purposes sounds promising; however, considering 67% of world population owning at least one mobile device today (GSMA real-time intelligence data), developing a mobile projector which can be used with their existing mobile devices, instead of re-purchasing a new mobile device with a built-in projector could be another option to achieve Akyumen’s goal.
Just like a class set of iPad/laptops, schools can purchase a number of low-cost mobile projectors which can be used with students/teachers’ mobile devices to project their work on any flat surface. Students can project their presentations all at the same time and create a gallery walk, for instance. Also, since the projectors are a “add-on” feature to mobile devices, they can continue to be used many more years even after the devices are replaced or upgraded.
This is a portable projector that I found on Amazon and the price is $299 and there are many other ones out there with even more affordable prices.
https://www.amazon.ca/Aodin-Projector-Rechargeable-Battery-Portable-Black/dp/B06XG63SVZ/ref=asc_df_B06XG63SVZ/?tag=bingshopdesk-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=&hvpos=&hvnetw=o&hvrand=&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583451668332638&psc=1