Video projector design lands SMU student a $50,000 scholarship

by John P. Meyer

As the result of her winning design for a video game projector (dubbed "Ball"), SMU Guildhall student Trisha Swanson finds herself in the enviable position of having to decide how to spend the $50,000 in scholarship money awarded to her by sponsors Texas Instruments DLP Products division, The Guildhall at SMU and Ignition, a globally-active design/development company with U.S. headquarters in Dallas.

Trisha has a "Ball"

With January's CES serving as a high-profile showcase for the competition's three top designs, these "Best Buzz" award-winners (in the new projector category) garnered sufficient interest to establish their viability in the consumer marketplace of the near future; the expectation is that avid gamers could see projectors modeled after these prototypes appearing on (literal and virtual) store shelves by late 2008, at price points comparable to home theater projectors.

Runners up in the competition were Dane Munkholm, whose "Tube" earned him a $9,000 scholarship, and Graden "Troy" McCool, designer of "Tower," a $5,000 scholarship winner.

Looks like there's more money than ever to be made in the video gaming industry, which Peter Raad, executive director at The Guildhall, refers to as "one of the hottest markets in the world."

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Anonymous

edsops, says:

Tarted up projector, not web cam. And yes, that's exactly what it is. There's big money to be made in video game projectors. That's why the sponsors are ponying up $50,000 for the free publicity in widely read media outlets like Pegasus. Well, from media outlets.