How cool is this: Symbol has released some information about Laser Projection Displays (LPD). Here’s the basic’s: “The Laser Projection Display from Symbol Technologies adds a new dimension to mobile device design. By scanning a laser beam along two orthogonal directions, a high quality image is created on any surface, at any distance, without refocusing. Since the miniature, low power LPD module can be embedded in a variety of portable devices, this technology is poised to revolutionize the display industry.”

In other words, you can embedded one of these suckers in a PDA or phone, and beam the display on to a wall that has a 640×480 resolution (16 shades of gray).

Finally, the world can sleep peacefully tonight. According to CNET, Microsoft Research has discovered the first known usage of the electronic smily face. Now only if someone would spend the time fixing Embedded Visual C++, i’d be a happy camper.