Tech giant's new phone beams a touchscreen onto any surface

Since they were introduced, Smartphones with built-in projectors -- in fact, just the two from Samsung, really -- haven't exactly been a huge hit so far, but Lenovo thinks it's finally got the right use case for this combination: beaming a touchscreen or virtual keyboard onto your desk.

According to reports, the world's first smartphone with an integrated focus-free laser projector, Smart Cast, was announced at the Lenovo Tech World conference today, as opposed to the DLP tech on existing pico projectors.

Sources say in addition to the usual wall projection mode, there's a "surface mode" that requires twisting the projector cap at the top (to enable reflection), propping up the phone with its kickstand, and then you'll have a projected touchscreen -- be it a virtual piano, a virtual keyboard or even Fruit Ninja -- right in front of you.

Unfortunatley, that's all the information available we've got so far, but you can assured that we are following developments very closely.