[Novalug] Two monitor questions (slightly OT)

[Charles M Howe]

(1) I need to get a new monitor. The thought occurs to me that the ideal
place to use the computer that this is to be the monitor for (browsing
only; no mail) is seated on the couch in my living room. Instead of a
monitor, would it be possible to use a projector? Would a projector have
a suitable amount of resolution?

(2) Last Saturday, when Roger Broseus was making his presentation, he
spoke about monitors that were so faint as to be almost unusable. I've
had those. In fact, question #1 is prompted by the fact that the monitor
now being used requires me to zoom in every time I go to a new web site.

Then I think back to a development I read about years ago -- years and
years and years. It seems to have disappeared, and my question to this
lost is:

A company, it might have been TI, was developing a monitor that would
control each pixel by some kind of tiny swinging mirror. How color would
be controlled was a total mystery. I can see tiny mirrors swinging
opening and shutting. They were metal, which ought to mean that if one
of these babies were discarded you wouldn't be discarding something
toxic. And they ought to be cheap to manufacture, once you had figured
out the manufacturing process.

Does anyone remember anything about this?

Charlie