The folks from the Nokia Research Center in Germany are working on a very exciting prospect called the “noBounds”. The project aims to provide a low-power solution for mobile users to extend Smartphone and Internet Tablet screens and project them to higher resolution external displays such as high definition TV’s, projectors and near-to-eye displays (NED). Via USB or WLAN the project aims to let those devices output video at Full HD (1920×1080p) – 30 FPS. This opens up tremendous possibilities, currently TV out capable phones such as the N95, N82 can only output at QVGA resolution (apart from the Gallery) and the ability to output at HD will certainly make the the current smartphone a portable computer.
Although now much is known about how this will work, one big positive is that all that is required for it to work is a software update. The Application is currently running on a N810 Maemo Internet Tablet and apparently uses very little battery. Internet Tablet Talk received an email announcement which you can find after the break.