Engineers at Washington based Microvision are not content with today's cellphones. Sure, today's cellphones can play music, take pictures, have silly ring tunes, vibrate, bleep, change color, convert currencies, connect to the Internet, screen calls, wake you up in the morning, organize your social life, send text messages, run video games, and make phone calls -- but  why can't phones project images? Soon, with Microvision's PicoP projector, you'll be able to. 

The PicoP is a mini-projector that can be integrated into a cellphone. The PicoP uses a teeny-tiny silicon mirror to time-modulated laser light. This light can be directed right into your eyeball at close range, or, in the case of the PicoP, can shoot out of your cellphone and on to a surface to display an image. The projection quality is purportedly good enough to watch a DVD movie with: the PicoP will fire out a 20 lumens SVGA 854x480 image. 

Today it is being reported that Microvision has come to a business arrangement with Motorola. They are going to tag-team up to build a first prototype of a cellphone / projector combo, in order to better measure its swankiness. Presumably, if the prototype turns out okay, before not too long these things could be hitting the shelves. 

We had Neoseeker's in-house artist Photoshop us up a conception-image of what this working device might look like. That guy is Alexander Trokman, President and CEO of Microvision.