Why sketch on a 15″ tablet when you could draw on a 150″ virtual screen? Honor just announced the Choice AI Projector Air, and it wants to turn your living room wall into the world’s cheapest interactive whiteboard. For 599 yuan (roughly 84 dollars), you get a compact 1080p LCD projector with stylus input, gesture controls, and enough quirks to make it feel less like a home theater device and more like a tablet that escaped its bezels. It ships in China starting December 8 in white and purple, and the spec sheet suggests Honor is betting that interaction matters more than raw brightness at this price.
The basics are straightforward: 1080p resolution, 280 CVIA lumens, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI 2.0, and a 5W speaker. The interesting part is what happens when you pair it with the stylus. You can tap UI elements, sketch on the wall, play pen-driven games, or just draw terrible stick figures during game night while your friends yell out Pictionary guesses. The projector also supports gesture controls and can tilt up to 160 degrees, so ceiling projection is on the table. Honor hasn’t said much about tracking accuracy or the software ecosystem yet, but the concept is clear: instead of just throwing pixels at a surface, this thing wants you to interact with them. Whether it pulls that off or just ends up as a novelty feature depends entirely on execution.
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This approach is a clever way to sidestep the usual budget projector arms race. Instead of trying to compete in the crowded market of generic streaming boxes that just happen to have a lens, Honor is creating a new niche. The “AI” in the name likely refers to the practical computer vision tasks handled by its Hisilicon chip, powering features like gesture recognition and intelligent image correction for things like obstacle avoidance and keystone adjustments. It is not about generative art, but about making the device smarter and more intuitive to use, which feels like a more honest application of the term in a device this affordable.
Of course, the experience will live or die by its responsiveness. A laggy stylus on a giant screen would be an exercise in frustration, and finicky gesture controls are often more trouble than they are worth. The 280 CVIA lumens rating also means this is strictly a lights-off device, destined for dim bedrooms and movie nights, not sunlit living rooms. But these are acceptable trade-offs for the price. Honor isn’t trying to build a perfect projector; it’s trying to build an interesting one. For about 84 dollars, the company is not just selling a piece of hardware, it is selling a clever, interactive experiment, and that is far more compelling than another anonymous black box.
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