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02 Apr 2010 12:29

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Tech: Sharp’s glasses-free 3D screens get us closer to mobile phone “Avatar”

  • Only downside: You have to be about a foot away. Sharp introduced a cool new technology today, a 3D touchscreen LCD. Why is this a big deal? Because it’s easily usable on mobile phones. It has some downsides – it only works at a fixed distance away. But you can easily switch between 2D and 3D, and you don’t need glasses, which is the important part. source

22 May 2009 11:30

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U.S.: Brains tend to falter to dementia in old age

  • ≈40% of men who live to 95 suffer from dementia in their old age
  • ≈60% of women who live to 95 do too; 1 in 600 people make it to 95 source