With a brightness rating of 10 lumens, the V10 Plus can put on a show for a small audience in a room with minimal ambient light. Its small metal tripod and useful remote control simplify setting it up and controlling your presentation from anywhere in the room.

Weighing 5.6 ounces (with battery), the 0.9-by-2.2-by-4.9-inch V10 Plus is about the same size as the --not much bigger than a thick candy bar. It has a native VGA resolution of 640 by 480, dual 0.5-watt speakers, and a battery life of 90 minutes.

The projector's strong suit, however, is its extra features: A card slot reads 32GB SDHC memory cards, and a media player has 4GB of internal memory for storing presentations, photos, movies, and video clips. No other pico we tested can capture video (up to 1.7GB per clip) via it's a/V input port from an external source such as a camcorder or DVD player.

Unfortunately, the lifetime of the V10 Plus's LED light is just 10,000 hours--half that of 20,000-hour models from 3M (the Mpro120), Optoma (the ), and WowWee (the ). Its LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon) technology uses 3M's older, first-generation MM100 projection engine, rather than its newer MM200 version, which delivers higher-quality images and consumes less power. And the V10 Plus lacks a VGA input, relying instead on an included S-Video cable to connect to computers that have an S-Video out capability (which is not as common as VGA).

In low ambient light at a distance of 3 feet from the screen, the V10 Plus displayed a viewable 23-inch-diagonal image. In a darkened room, it displayed a 48-inch-diagonal image at 6 feet from the screen. Larger screen sizes were possible but looked less bright.