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The Sharp had one thing none of the others (at that time -- early 80's) did. Playback.

You entered in up to 50 "button pushes" of whatever, and hit =. To check you entered it all, you hit PB (playback) and you could then scroll through every bit of it. It also had 6 memory locations you could draw from. The others in its price range had 2.

No other calculator came close (at that time), even at 3 times the money. [I guess they are up to 142 steps now.]

Fond, fond memories of that product. From sharp minds indeed. I didn't go out of my way to convince my felow 'geers about its virtues...

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Mind you the funniest one I have come across was a page about "sharp calculators classed as weapons. Well I suppose a (literally) sharp calculator could be!

...but these days you can buy consumer LED bulbs in about any color temperature you like, including the "warm" light indistinguishable from incandescents.

Even slicker: Sharp makes an LED bulb which will display any color temperature you like, complete with a remote control.

This graphics card will be perfect for http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/100607.html .

http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/051003.html

uses exactly your suggestion im pretty sure: "backlight" made of an array of leds

and to all the responses to yourcomment by people with a "24bit colour is good enough" and "cd quality is good enough", what the hell are you doing on slashdot if your not interested in improving technology to the point where its perfect, not just "good enough" (and no, its NOT good enough, many people with keen ears and good eyes, myself included, can notice the difference as you go to a higher quality sound/colour )(ok the colour I have not seen higher but i have seen the banding at 24bit, meaning higher is needed, plus of course theres the whole monitor colour gamut problem, if you dont know what that is, look it up before responding please)

I love the clarity in music in 24bit 96khz on my audigy 4 with quality speakers (when I can find it, not often yet), as compared to CD source music, but then Ive been listening to my dads quality hifi gear all my life, and I am a musician, so my ears may be a lot more sensitive than the average persons.

please stop assuming just because your senses are not able to detect the difference, that someone elses cannot

http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/051003.html

I wonder if this thing can do black that actually looks black, or if it just gets the high contrast ratio by being able to produce whites brighter than the sun?

it has a brightness of 500cd/m2. still too light for me, but much better than 1000cd/m2 which are far more copmmon.

and by the way: original announcement. Why They are posting links to such crap websites in the original story?

They got it wrong. Autostereo LCDs have been around for years.

Try Sharp's 3D products web site, they have a 15" XGA monitor or laptops that have been available for a while now. Other companies have been selling autostereo LCDs for much longer.

If you don't mind using polarized glasses- one eye vertical, one eye horizontal, then you only need two.

You don't need glasses. I'm not sure about the actual LCD used in this thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's using the same technology Sharp uses in their laptop. I've seen the Sharp techology demoed and as someone who basically doesn't know anything about all of this, I was totally astounded.

Luckily, Sharp conveniently explains how it works -- they use something called a "parallax barrier", which, as the name implies, basically makes it so you see one screen from one eye and the other from the other. Obviously this works best if you're immediately in front of the screen, but from the demo I saw, it worked from a wider angle than I would have thought.

Or you can read all of the past slashdot stories about it....

Looks .. card-sized!

This, he said, was why sharp were not currently pushing their PDPs or LCDs and are actually just rebadging currently.

Here ya go, from Sharp's website.

I dunno about you, but I'm convinced!

the wonders of 3d

then theres some details on the technology.

the wonders of 3d

then theres some details on the technology.

Check out this sweet example image.

Nothing like showing off the technology used in a 3D monitor like WordArt ;-)

Is this the same technology that has been around on Sharp 3D Notebook LCD's since last year and just brought to the desktop market, or are there any hardware advances?

A really good site I've been lurking on is dvxuser which is a collection of folks who are shooting on the 24p DVX100(a) Panasonic camera. Some of these folks have produced some very amazing footage.

There is a new forum on that board looking at the new 24p model of the Canon that was just announced.

Another thing to think about is the next gen of camera which is 'just around the corner' - the HDV standard. While it doesn't look to support the 24p the above cameras offer, 720p & 1080i on a mini-dv tape sure looks exciting.

There's always new gear though. The DVX and XL crowds have an almost religious zeal to their love of their kit so maybe start by looking at these two cameras if you can afford them - at least you then keep your options open. 'film look' as well as 'news report' settings depending on your vision.

hmmm...

Specifications:
Modem 56k*
*The onboard modem is a Winmodem, and does not work with Lindows or Linux. It does work with Windows XP



Great computer to sell pre-installed with Linux then. For a Linux-based ultra-light, I recommend these.

my humble piece in norwegian

some pictures down the page

English explaination of the "parallax" technology

Sharps own specification page

It's only supprted by Windows XP sp1a, by the way.

penhead

my humble piece in norwegian

some pictures down the page

English explaination of the "parallax" technology

Sharps own specification page

It's only supprted by Windows XP sp1a, by the way.

penhead

Bullshit!
Photovoltaics have a payback time in energy terms of around 1-1.5 years. Economic payback comes much later of course. See This and This one

I figure that portrait mode is better for the non-CLI crowd (e.g. windows users) and landscape is better for CLI users. This looks perfect, if a little big. SSH from anywhere!

See the gadgeterr review to get an idea of the real size. http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/021112.html
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/sharp-c700-review.htm l

... because Sharp actually did issue the news in a language more comprehensible to this audience either:
Linux "clamshell" PDAs with an Intel Xscale PXA255@400MHz, 64 megs of RAM and up to 128 megs of built-in flash are only some of the mouth-watering specs for the new SL-C760 and C750, just released in English to make geeks world-wide wish they were in Japan - the only place, again, for which Sharp has announced to market the new models. The predecessor, widely acclaimed for its excellent "Continuous Grain Silicon" VGA LCD, has been made available by third parties in the USA, Germany, and directly from Japan, but if you're looking to replace e.g. your aging Psion with the latest and greatest Linux PDA from a local vendor, you may want to get Sharp to change their mind and make it available world-wide this time.
In other news, in India the Simputer is expected to be shipping below US$200 (10000 rupies) soon.
Wouldn't both of these be rather compelling items for ThinkGeek to carry as well (just in case the current vendors get overwhelmed by Slashdotters buying up the equivalent of a monthly production - BTW, what's the discount at 30000 units) ?

... because Sharp actually did issue the news in a language more comprehensible to this audience either:
Linux "clamshell" PDAs with an Intel Xscale PXA255@400MHz, 64 megs of RAM and up to 128 megs of built-in flash are only some of the mouth-watering specs for the new SL-C760 and C750, just released in English to make geeks world-wide wish they were in Japan - the only place, again, for which Sharp has announced to market the new models. The predecessor, widely acclaimed for its excellent "Continuous Grain Silicon" VGA LCD, has been made available by third parties in the USA, Germany, and directly from Japan, but if you're looking to replace e.g. your aging Psion with the latest and greatest Linux PDA from a local vendor, you may want to get Sharp to change their mind and make it available world-wide this time.
In other news, in India the Simputer is expected to be shipping below US$200 (10000 rupies) soon.
Wouldn't both of these be rather compelling items for ThinkGeek to carry as well (just in case the current vendors get overwhelmed by Slashdotters buying up the equivalent of a monthly production - BTW, what's the discount at 30000 units) ?

... because Sharp actually did issue the news in a language more comprehensible to this audience either:
Linux "clamshell" PDAs with an Intel Xscale PXA255@400MHz, 64 megs of RAM and up to 128 megs of built-in flash are only some of the mouth-watering specs for the new SL-C760 and C750, just released in English to make geeks world-wide wish they were in Japan - the only place, again, for which Sharp has announced to market the new models. The predecessor, widely acclaimed for its excellent "Continuous Grain Silicon" VGA LCD, has been made available by third parties in the USA, Germany, and directly from Japan, but if you're looking to replace e.g. your aging Psion with the latest and greatest Linux PDA from a local vendor, you may want to get Sharp to change their mind and make it available world-wide this time.
In other news, in India the Simputer is expected to be shipping below US$200 (10000 rupies) soon.
Wouldn't both of these be rather compelling items for ThinkGeek to carry as well (just in case the current vendors get overwhelmed by Slashdotters buying up the equivalent of a monthly production - BTW, what's the discount at 30000 units) ?

There is clearly a market for this class of device. I would love a Newton that was updated with the technology now available. The Sharp SL-C700 is the closest thing that I would be willing to replace my Palm Vx with at the moment. The device is smaller than the old newtons but has the power to run anything. The biggest problems with the Sharp are the the PIM applications are lame, battery life, and the fact that there are now plans to actually release it in the US.

Apple has the expertise from the Newton to take the Sharp hardware mainstream. If the Sharp can run TrollTech and Debian, could it not run OSX and Inkwell? I would like to be able to at least compile most Linux apps to run on the platform

What I would like to see in a mini-PC/handheld/PDA in SL-C700 form-factor would be:

All day battery life

802.11b built-in

Voice-recorder with at least off-line recognition (dictation)

USB connectivity that can recharge

RS-232 (for terminal/ssh apps

2 CF/MMC slots

MUST sync with Outlook as per Palm

Good handwriting recog. as well as a non-thumb keyboard

Apple, if they didn't want to go to Xscale could use PPC in the form of the new reference design from IBM.

Come on Apple - You can do it!

One word: WANT.

Here's the press release and spec sheet.

It's coming to the US... ... but Dynamism have done their own English port already. (Any stories/opinions of Dynamism?)

Keyboard doesn't look great (but at least it's better than the original tiny Zaurus one)

I've always wanted something tiny I could carry around that would give me decent QWERTY with a landscape screen capable of displaying VT100 readably (or, better, actual graphics) that could also connect to the net when I'm out and about. This looks like it (though expansion is limited to SD & CF - that's enough for WiFi and BlueTooth, though.)

-- Yoz

It has a 400Mhz XScale processor, 64/32MB RAM, one SD slot, and one CF Type 2 slot. The battery is claimed to be able to support 4hrs 50 mins of active use. It's reasonably sized and weighs 225g, but the capacity to record sound is lacking.

Unfortunately, Sharp currently have no plans to release this beauty outside Japan. An alternative might be the HP Jornada 720, which has a 640*240 display and a keyboard. Its expansion options are arguably better. It has a 209MHz ARM processor, which may be good enough. However, it weighs half a kilo, it costs $1000(!) (at least officially), and Linux is still being ported. Yet another alternative might be the 640*480 HNT Exilien 00101/00201, but where or when that thing will be available beats me.

It's all very frustrating, because an SL-C700-like PDA with 128MB of RAM (instead of 64MB), somewhat better expandability (say one CF Type 2 slot and one Type 2 PC Card slot) and built-in sound-recording capability would solve all my life's problems. ;)

It has a 400Mhz XScale processor, 64/32MB RAM, one SD slot, and one CF Type 2 slot. The battery is claimed to be able to support 4hrs 50 mins of active use. It's reasonably sized and weighs 225g, but the capacity to record sound is lacking.

Unfortunately, Sharp currently have no plans to release this beauty outside Japan. An alternative might be the HP Jornada 720, which has a 640*240 display and a keyboard. Its expansion options are arguably better. It has a 209MHz ARM processor, which may be good enough. However, it weighs half a kilo, it costs $1000(!) (at least officially), and Linux is still being ported. Yet another alternative might be the 640*480 HNT Exilien 00101/00201, but where or when that thing will be available beats me.

It's all very frustrating, because an SL-C700-like PDA with 128MB of RAM (instead of 64MB), somewhat better expandability (say one CF Type 2 slot and one Type 2 PC Card slot) and built-in sound-recording capability would solve all my life's problems. ;)

A nice explanation.

http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/020927-1.gif

Principle of Operation of 3D LCDs
A 3D display requiring no special viewing glasses is generated by controlling the path of travel of light from the display so that slightly different images reach the left and right eyes; in other words, the right eye sees only the image intended for it, and the left eye only the image intended for it.
This newly developed 3D LCD employs a technique called the "parallax barrier," an older, well-known approach to generating a stereo display. The 3D LCD combines a conventional TFT LCD with a Switching LCD, a proprietary Sharp development.
This Switching LCD establishes an optical parallax barrier, and by controlling the path of travel of light, makes it possible to separate the display images so that slightly different images reach the left and right eyes.
By displaying the image intended for the left eye and the image for the right eye as a stereographic pair on a TFT LCD, each eye sees only the image intended for it and the brain combines the images and perceives them as a 3D representation.
In addition, the Switching LCD electrically controls the parallax barrier to make it transparent, eliminating its ability to separate light paths. This way, the right and left eyes can see the same image when viewing ordinary 2D content. In other words, the display can also function as a conventional standard imaging device.

Here's the construction of one by Sharp, and an explanation of how they work.

Ali

The machine sounds like a great gadget, but notice all the extras you need to purchase to make it fully functional -- such as the $200 recording card, another digital camera card ($200), video camera software ($40), another flash card to use the gadget as a phone, modem cards, LAN cards, PC link cables, PC link kits...
which sounds a bit much

The device itself goes for about $450 I believe.

By the way, the web site (with an English section) for NOA, the creators of Nancy is here.

• VQF.com
• MPEG home site
• MPEG source
• Additional audio s/w
• Sharp VN-EZ1 camera
• MPEG-4 (audio) development tools

Video, I'm not sure. Again, MPEG-4's video layer is said to be very good, but I'd have to see some videos in that format to be convinced. QT4 is OK, but there are no (en|de)coders for it for Linux, which limits it a bit.