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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Family Tech: The Pico Projector [Watch (HLS stream): Family Tech: The Pico Projector](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/K7BhCtfY.m3u8) (3:13)  _Published 2009-01-08. TIME's Josh Quittner demos one of his favorite gadgets, the Optoma Pico PK-101 pocket projector, in his favorite room in the house_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:04 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Family Tech: HD Projector Movie Night](/video/t6u5ASzg/) ### Family Tech: HD Projector Movie Night [Family Tech: Fitness Gadgets](/video/FL7akRuH/) ### Family Tech: Fitness Gadgets [Family Tech: Pocket HD Shoot-Out](/video/DR79Oe1b/) ### Family Tech: Pocket HD Shoot-Out --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Excuse me. Hello from Northern California. You know, I think most people who got into gadgets did so when they were kids. And I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of us did it through James Bond movies. James Bond always showed you the amazing things, that really tiny, tiny things, like wrist watches could do. Well my favoirte gadget of this year could be in a James Bond movie. It's, it's totally that cool. It's the Pico Optoma Projector. And this is a digital projector that will take video from virtually any source and project it on a wall, which is a pretty cool thing when you stop to consider all the various things that can give you video now. Everything from your, your cellular phone to your, your video cameras. So you start by putting an adapter onto the back of your iPhone. That you get with your Optoma. Fits right in the back there. And then this little plug here fits into the into the Optoma's AV. In jack is right there. We'll watch an episode of Lost. Could you turn off the lights please? [ SOUND ] That's pretty amazing, I mean, you've gotta admit. Look at the quality of that very, very bright. Okay, that's great. Could you put the lights back on please? So, I, I don't know if you could tell. But when we we're, when we we're watching the movie the, the sound quality is really pretty poor. It's very, very tinny, and, and very hard to differentiate. I mean you can, you can do it in a pinch, but it's not at all ideal. But I came up with a perfect solution which involves yet another James Bond like device. This is called the Fox L and this is a, a sound source. You can use it with Bluetooth for many devices though not any Apple devices. But you could use it on for other Bluetooth telephones and so forth. And it produces a sound that's like a mini boombox. It's an enormous, enormous sound. It's shocking. You've gotta, you've gotta actually experience it to believe it. I'm going to plug this into the iPhone, like this, just into the regular headphone jack. Now we got some sound. [ SOUND ] For someone, or just admiring the view? I mean, that's awesome. [ CROSSTALK ] This is like a whole movie theater in your pocket. And just like James Bond has a special use for every top secret gadget in his life. I've got a special top secret use for these gadgets in mind. [ SOUND ] Excuse me. [ MUSIC ] Did you hear what I said? I want my drugs back. [ SOUND ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Family Tech: The Pico Projector","description":"TIME's Josh Quittner demos one of his favorite gadgets, the Optoma Pico PK-101 pocket projector, in his favorite room in the house","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/K7BhCtfY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-01-08T20:22:02.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/K7BhCtfY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/K7BhCtfY/","duration":"PT3M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/K7BhCtfY/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```