Sharp Announces 3D Laptop

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 11, 2003 @10:20PM from the laptops-of-the-future dept.

wembley writes "The Associated Press is running a story about a forthcoming Sharp laptop with a 3D screen. I can't find any pictures, but it requires no glasses, so you don't have to walk around looking like Biff's sidekick in Back to the Future. It comes with WinXP, but it's only a matter of time before we're arguing here about what looks better in 3D, Gnome or KDE."

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huh? by waitigetit · 2003-09-11 22:22 · Score: 0, Funny

And I thought the purpose was to get these things as flat as possible.

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All laptops are in 3D.. by adeyadey · 2003-09-11 22:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Unless theyve been run over by a steamroller..

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1. Re:All laptops are in 3D.. by CGP314 · 2003-09-11 22:33 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  All laptops are in 3D Unless theyve been run over by a steamroller
  
  Wow, I didn't know steamrollers were able to make two-dimensional atoms.
2. Re:All laptops are in 3D.. by Spudley · 2003-09-12 00:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Forget about laptops; I know someone who claimed he'd run over a bible with a steamroller....
  
  But I didn't believe him - it was obvious he was just stretching the truth.
  
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pornography by CGP314 · 2003-09-11 22:23 · Score: 5, Funny

but it's only a matter of time before we're arguing here about what looks better in 3D, Gnome or KDE

It's a sad day when you hear the words "3D display" and the first thing that comes to mind is desktops wars, not pornography.
1. Re:pornography by 2Bits · 2003-09-11 23:32 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yeah, I was thinking of pr0n too, then suddenly I remember one that I just watched 2 weeks ago where the guy, after "hacking" 3 girls at the same time, and turned to shoot at the camera... and I'm like.... NOOOO!!! I'm not going to imagine this scene in 3D!
# never looked so good by aardwolf204 · 2003-09-11 22:25 · Score: 1, Funny

# never looked so good

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No, please no. by RMH101 · 2003-09-11 22:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Can you imagine how bad Powerpoint presentations are going to be with this sort of technology? It was bad enough when we gave them clip art...
1. Re:No, please no. by simong_oz · 2003-09-11 22:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  clip art was nothing compared to watching every bullet point flying in from all sides of the screen or flashing on and off or dimming or dissolving or ... having to listen to the constant mouse clicking/pgdn because someone has just discovered the animation feature.
  
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I really liked those glasses.. by peculiarmethod · 2003-09-11 22:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Those red slatted glasses (that came in a McDonalds happy meal) were just the thing I needed to further ostrisize myself from my schoolmates in Oklahoma, as if running something called a Pirate BBS and actually reading the BTTF books (which all sucked except part III) didn't do that well enough already. Now kids can be singled out from the next car on public transports for mugging, thanks to Billy and his newly co-produced 3D minesweeper.

I for one welcome my 3D natalie portman.

-pm

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A measure of geekness by min0r_threat · 2003-09-11 22:28 · Score: 3, Funny

"...it's only a matter of time before we're arguing here about what looks better in 3D, Gnome or KDE."

Oh what joy! Proof I'm not a geek! My first thought was 3D pr0n. Gnome and KDE were the last things on my mind when I read about this.

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1. Re:A measure of geekness by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-11 23:41 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  My first mental image was surfing to the wrong site with 3-d animated gifs of cum shots, and resisting the urge to duck.
  
  Does this make me a geek or not?
Re:Ducking and Dodging by advocate_one · 2003-09-11 22:33 · Score: 2, Funny

you can get that with a phal curry and ten pints of lager... no need to splash out $3000 for this effect... :)

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Actual image larger than the screen by Frans+Faase · 2003-09-11 22:35 · Score: 1, Funny

The image at the bottom of the screen seems to suggest that it will actually show images larger than the screen size!!! This is not just 3D it holographic floating in the air.
possible uses... by shouldiswitch · 2003-09-11 22:39 · Score: 0, Funny

I can imagine the new office assistant asking me if i want to write a letter in saying "hidehooooo !" and jumping around in 3D in front of me, leaving (virtual) brown marks everywhere. Tech stuff is good ! mm'kay ?
About time too... by ContemporaryInsanity · 2003-09-11 22:46 · Score: 3, Funny

...those 2d laptops, put the bloody things down, you can't find 'em again. That extra dimensions gonna make all the difference.
Sigh... by Jesus+IS+the+Devil · 2003-09-11 22:46 · Score: 2, Funny

but it's only a matter of time before we're arguing here about what looks better in 3D, Gnome or KDE."

Methinks CowBoyNeal has been deprived of sex for too long...

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Gnome or KDE? by Zog+The+Undeniable · 2003-09-11 23:26 · Score: 2, Funny

It has to be KDE. Who wants to see a big grey foot poking out at them?

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Re:Ducking and Dodging by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-11 23:27 · Score: 1, Funny

No, life is what happens elsewhere while you are busy posting on Slashdot.

;-)
Re:Details by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-11 23:32 · Score: 0, Funny

and the stupid faked 3D photo.

There must be a bug with these stuff. I am just staring at the photo right now, and it does not look like 3D on my CRT.
Oh My by topopardo · 2003-09-11 23:32 · Score: 0, Funny

Just imagine the M$ Word clippo on 3D...
Re:I already have my KDE desktop in 3D by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-12 00:05 · Score: 1, Funny

you can impress your friends!

It should come as no surprise that your friends are easily impressed.
Ouch! by SharkJumper · 2003-09-12 01:54 · Score: 3, Funny

The computer display produces 3D images by sending a slightly different image to the right eye and the left eye at once by bending them in different angles

AAAH! MY EYES! IT'S BENDING MY EYES!!
That's nothing by popo · 2003-09-12 02:50 · Score: 2, Funny

3D Screen? Pwash! That's nothing!

My entire laptop is 3D! You can walk around it and see it from different angles and everything!

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