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3D/2D switchable LCD monitor from Sharp

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can-see-clearly-now dept.

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk writes "Sharp just came up with an LCD monitor that allows you to switch between 3D ( no glasses ) and 2D view. Wanna play quake and have a slight heart attack?" Now thats what I'm talking about!

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  1. Likely by Finuvir · · Score: 3, Informative

    So when you forgot everything you might once have known about thermodynamics, did you get hot (because of loss of intormation)? Energy is conserved, entropy increases all of the time (pretty much...). It is not true that an increase in entropy will result in excess heat (energy). Nor is it true that simply ignoring available information increases entropy.
    And if your calculation of 1/3 = 50% is anything to go by, your 50F increase is probably way off anyway (even if the theory was sound)
    Entropy is often explained by comparison to disorder or loss of information, but it is neither of these, it is a function of state of any thermodynamic system. And it cannot create heat out of nothing.

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  2. Re:It's not a repeat, eh! by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 3, Informative


    Do you actually remember the last time this story was posted? Switching was mentioned in the article as the most significant challenge for the engineers.

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  3. Re:Let me enlighten you by TheToon · · Score: 2, Informative

    >Objects are perceived as the same distance away
    >when light takes the same amount of time to
    >traverse from each of the objects.

    BZZT! Wrong. While the brain is a fantastic piece of biology, variation in lightspeed from objects that surrounds you in a room or outside are way too small for you to register.

    The brain calculates differences in angles from our two eyes to find out how far away an object is, as well as references to other objects for far away objects.

    Stare at an object and open and close your right then left eye. You will notice that objects shift from left to right as you do this. Objects closer to your eyes shifts relatively more than objects further away. For objects further away, a linear approched is also used, as in object B is behind A, therefore B is further away.

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  4. Already posted on front page by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Informative
    I know that this will get marked as redundant but you sheep will always give me more karma. Not only was this already posted (the link is in the second highest article in my view) but this was already on the default front page.

    It must be important if it's front page news twice.

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