News Article
March 7, 2008

Canadian company Meta4Hand (Hall 13, Stand C33) has integrated a UMPC with a picoprojection engine. This creates a “smart” projector PC, which can be operated wirelessly with various smartphones currently available on the market. The result means you can carry around a full function PC using the projector for display and a smartphone for keypad. “The wireless pairing of smartphones with the smart projection devices provides full server side functionality with full mobility and access to the full desktop experience for mobile phone users,” says Ray Moschuk, Meta4Hand’s CEO. “We have pioneered a new paradigm of mobility for the enterprise market, and ultimately for the consumer market. Our reference designs are available to prospective partners in manufacturing and distribution of wireless devices to serve these markets.” “Our patented software gives you the power of a laptop in your hand,” adds Moschuk. Meta4Hand has been working on the product for two years and the resulting reference design can accommodate various pico-projection engines currently coming onto the market. Its portfolio of products work with smartphones to give users access to large screens without having to lug around their PC and real time access to the applications they use every day. That’s technology that’s attracting the interest of suppliers to Europe’s aerospace industry, says Moschuk. He figures his solutions can cut down aerospace equipment from three tons to 300 pounds. And in aerospace, that sort of weight saving matters. “There is no longer any need to carry laptops, notebooks or tablets,” says Moschuk, “because we turn your smartphone into a mobile desktop virtually anywhere.”

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