The top business picks from CES 2009

Samsung Pico Projector
What if you could avoid the conference-room projector problem altogether by simply bringing your own projector to your presentations? This might soon be possible, as several vendors at CES were showing off miniature projectors about the size of a smartphone.

The most impressive of these projectors — which are based on DLP projection technology — was the Samsung Pico Projector [pictured]. It even has its own internal storage where you can drop your PowerPoint files and run your whole presentation straight from the device. Alternatively, you could hook up your laptop or smartphone to the mini projector and run the presentation that way.

This will not run a presentation in a big lecture hall, but it would be handy for sales people, project managers and executives who do lots of short presentations in small conference rooms. The product will be released during the first half of 2009.