BenQ GS50

Prepare to be the talk of the campsite

Portable projector £699 whf.cm/BenQ GS50

This portable projector is not only designed to be moved easily between different mates' houses for sports watching, but could also be used in your back garden - or even while camping.

It's suitably well-built for a portable unit, there's real heft to it when you pick it up by the strap attached to its left-hand side, and the bodywork feels rugged.

Tucked inside the GS50's compact but rugged form is a Full HD DLP optical system illuminated by LED lighting capable of delivering a lifespan of 30,000 hours and up to 500 lumens of brightness.

This is a high brightness claim for such a portable projector - 25 per cent higher, in fact, than the brightness claimed for the already punchy Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air.

The GS50 is rated by BenQ as being able to comfortably support only a 100in maximum image size. This seems to us like simply a healthy bit of common sense from BenQ's specifications department, as the Nebula Mars 3 Air looks too dull for comfort pushed past 90 inches, despite its 120-inch maximum image size claim.