Many presenters need portable equipment that can be set up and used anywhere in the world. Manufactures have recognised this trend and now offer a number of products that allow you to present on the road, using different media.

Data projection is clearly the favoured option as it allows direct presentations from your laptop PC. The projectors most suited to the portable environment are the light weight 1.6kg projectors such as the NEC 150. However many people decide to balance the weight with a higher light output such as the Epson EMP 730 which is 1.9kg but 1500 ansi lumen.

There is also a trend in producing projectors that have flash card slots so that presentations can be downloaded onto the flashcard and presented without the need of a laptop PC. IBM have recently launched a micro drive system that allows you to store 1Gb of information on a flash card, so projectors such as the Epson EMP 730 and NEC LT220 offer a real option to the presenter.

Other media choices have offered portable solutions for some years. OHP's have been around for a long time and the best of the portable products would be the Geha Vision E Portable OHP. Any 35mm projector can be used in a portable environment and the most competitive product at the moment is the Elmo Shoman 253. For video reproduction the only option is a Combi unit such as the Orion 1499, that combines both video and TV/monitor into one.