The LightPad plugs into your smartphone and turns it into a laptop of sorts, complete with keyboard and trackpad. Tiny projectors might soon be a standard feature on smartphones, but until that happens there's the LightPad. Demoing here at CES , the LightPad is a pico projector mixed with a keyboard and trackpad. You plug in your phone and it beams out whatever is on the screen to a nearby wall. But its main feature is that you can flip up the lid and turn it into a laptop of sorts, with software that adds a virtual mouse. Part of that idea has already showed up in a mass market product, specifically Motorola's Atrix smartphone, which can plug into a laptop-like dock and create a portable computer . The big difference here being that there's no LCD display to speak of. The LightPad sports a 854-by-480-pixel display, which comes in a little under what most high-density smartphone displays now ship with. A second-generation model slated for release next year ...
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