The impressive pocket-sized projector casts an 80-inch screen - and it's on sale

Aurzen

If you've ever wanted an ultra-portable projector, 1 of the coolest products from this year's CES is yet disposable – and you tin already people a discount.

The Aurzen ZIP is simply a tri-folding, super-small projector that fits successful your pocket. It lets you instrumentality amusement oregon enactment presentations anyplace you go. 

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It's presently $400 connected the Aurzen site, but there's a pop-up erstwhile you sojourn the tract that gets you 10% disconnected by signing up for emails. When I tried the promo codification connected the ZIP projector, it did work, taking $40 disconnected the terms and bringing the full to $360. The projector is besides available connected Amazon for the aforesaid archetypal price, but a $20 coupon brings the terms determination to $380.

The projector, which folds to 3.3 x 3.1 x 1 inches, oregon astir the size of a pad of sticky notes, weighs little than 10 ounces. It tin play movies successful scenery mode oregon societal media posts and videos successful representation mode.

Aurzen says the ZIP works with Android, iOS, MacOS, and Windows devices and projects a surface up to 80 inches successful size. You tin usage it to reflector your phone's surface via Bluetooth oregon to link a video root similar a gaming console, TV, oregon laptop done HDMI. 

The institution warns that the projector doesn't person streaming apps built in, and -- owed to DRM restrictions -- surface mirroring typically cannot show contented from definite streaming platforms. But Aurzen says you tin enactment astir that utilizing a wireless HDMI Dongle.

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Right now, the solution maxes retired astatine 720p, but Aurzen expects that to summation to 1080p successful the adjacent mentation of the projector. The artillery beingness lasts astir an hr and a fractional connected a azygous charge, but you tin support it plugged successful portion you usage it to summation that time. Both of those are tiny downsides; the novelty unsocial much than makes up for them. 

You tin acquisition the Aurzen ZIP successful either achromatic oregon gold. 

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