Sharp and Sharp Laboratories of Europe announced their "Triple View" technology today, which builds upon their existing Dual View technology by adding a whole other viewing angle.

This development means that three people seated at different angles facing the same screen will each see a different image. Billy on your left sees a picture of a truck, you see a picture of a trout, and Bubba to your right sees a picture of a shotgun.

Sharp's own English press release offers more technical details. According to the Impress Watch article, a single LCD with a resolution of 533 x 480 dots is split into three different signals with a Parallax Barrier, giving each virtual "screen" a resolution of a mere 177 x 480. Not exactly earth shattering, but at least the technology now exists.

Willcom announced they will be releasing a silver version of the W-ZERO3 on March 8th. The silver color is "a refined tint, to be used by a wider user base including women." The price and specifications of the new unit remain the same as the black W-ZERO3.

Willcom's press release is here and their product page here.

Sharp and Vodafone have gotten together to show some mobile phones with VGA displays at the "3GSM World Congress 2006." There aren't many specifications released about the phones themselves, but we do know that they have nice displays -- compared to the conventional QVGA of current Japanese phones, VGA offers four times as many pixels. ITmedia has some pics of the phone in this article. If you're looking for more information, here is the press release from Sharp, and here is the o­ne from Vodafone. Finally, and I'm not entirely sure this is related, but Toshiba is showing a VGA LCD controller LSI intended for use in mobile phones; its press release is here. The image below comes from the ITmedia article.

Sharp has announced the Papyrus PW-9920, a new addition to their line of electronic dictionaries. It contains 63 reference sources including a number related to diet and health so is guaranteed to sell like hot-cakes to Japanese housewives.

Carabiners, for those that don't know, are metal links used to connect things together. Yourself to a rope, your keys to your belt loops, or whatever. Sharp slapped a carabiner o­n their latest MP3 player, which may actually be more useful than it sounds.

Here it is: the last piece of office equipment you'll ever need.

-USB or network connectivity? Check
-Printer? Check
-Fax? Check
-Copier? Check
-Scanner? Check
-PDF creation? Check
-Scan to email? Check
-Document feeder? Check
-Cordless phone base station? Check
-Memory card slot? Check
-PictBridge? Check
-Synchronizing with a mobile phone? Check

No really, it's all here.

What difference does a 5.6MHz/1-bit amplifier make to audio quality? I have absolutely no idea, but it sure sounds fancy, doesn't it? That's the premise behind Sharp's new "Auvi SD-MX1" DVD/CD/MD component system.

Last week, Sharp jointly announced their "Dual-View", which displays a different screen image depending on viewing position, and "Veil-View", which allows control of the viewing angle, technologies. Read on for a detailed explanation of how these technologies work and when you can expect to see them hit the shelves.

To keep up with consumers' insatiable demand for stupendously large LCD televisions, Sharp is building a new LCD panel factory at its site in Kameyama, Japan. The new factory, which is more than twice as large as Sharp's existing LCD panel factory, will focus on the production of full high-definition 45 and 65 inch LCD panels. The good news for consumers is that the new factory is also expected to double Sharp's investment productivity, leading to lower prices for LCD TVs and larger profits for Sharp.

Leave it to Sharp to announce a heap of products in the same day. This time, we take a look at two of their new 32" LCD TVs offering integrated wireless LAN, USB functionality, and dual display support. Err wait, o­nly o­ne of them offers that stuff...