Mobile industry embraces touch-screen; some bet on 'projector glasses'

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Mobintech, a Denmark-based group, believes it has found the solution to the mobile phone industry's problem of trying to offer television and video services on a tiny screen.

"The logic of our product is that everyone wants to push mobile television at the moment but there are obstacles," says marketing director Soren Peterson.

"The first is the size of the screen. If you're watching football you can't see the ball. If it's boxing, you don't know who is hitting who."

The group's proposition is a chunky pair of futuristic-looking glasses that connect to the phone, which when worn by a viewer give the impression of watching a 30-inch (76-centimetre) television at a distance of two metres.

Stephanie Pittet, an analyst at IT and...