Just ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), LG has announced a television that could become the most talked about piece of gear at CES. The new “Hecto” Laser TV system is designed to project a 100 inch 1080p image onto a screen from just 22 inches away. Unlike traditional projectors that require dark rooms and must be mounted on the ceiling several feet away from the projection surface, the Laser TV is designed to project images straight up or down and uses a special laser-based illumination system (with a bulb life of 25,000 hours) to produce an extremely bright, high contrast (1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio) image with a picture reportedly on par with plasma TVs. The acute angle allows the unit to be placed directly in front of the screen on an entertainment center, the floor, or mounted to the ceiling.