Laser-Bending Chip Could Put A Projector in Your Pocket[ Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:58:20 GMT ]Optics researchers have created a tiny chip that creates a projected image without shining a bright light through a small image, and in fact uses no lenses at all. Instead, it uses the physics of light rays to "bend" a laser beam toward where it needs to go — thousands of times per second.