Camera obscuras threw an image of the world on to a surface, and then you could trace round it.
The fact that the Chinese characters were on an image made things a bit tough (can't just throw an image like this into Google Translate, you know?), but eventually this character drawing/translation tool saved the day.
I just reviewed the Microvision ShowWX+, which mates incredibly easily with an iPad, and can be used to throw an image anywhere, since the projector is so incredibly small and light.
I happen to think projectors are the unheralded champions of home video — they can throw a big image up on a screen, they're portable and the price is right compared with giant plasma and liquid-crystal displays.
The company recently showcased a mystifying new device called Illumiroom, which combines a Kinect with a projector that sits on a coffee table and throws a huge image across the wall that the TV is standing against.
I'm happy to hear greenwashing isn't working and that consumers want corporations making the stuff they buy to ACTUALLY address their environmental impacts instead of simply throwing a "green" image on a product and expecting it to sell.
Toksvig has been on British television and radio for the better part of 30 years, and judging by the peels of laughter in the audience when she throws up an image of No. 73 many of her fans in Sydney have been with her for the long hall.
Now, there have been projectors for Apple devices, which throw a 40-inch image onto the wall with 40 lumens of brightness, requiring a totally dark room.
"It's definitely a handful of people, whom we regard as ultra-leftists, that seek to wreck this alliance and seek to throw a very negative image of our government," said Smuts Ngonyama, an African National Congress spokesman.
From the moment when the ten-year-old Bergman cranked his first projector and ran his first three-metre film loop through a magic lantern — lit by a paraffin lamp and throwing a trembly brown image on the whitewashed wall of his nursery wardrobe — the shadows on the wall, he says, "wanted to tell me something".
