Mention 3D, and you’ll get an enthusiastic shrug from most. Mention three little words in conjunction, and everything changes. In case you haven’t guessed that magic trio, it’s “no glasses required.” We’ve seen the technology bandied about, but we’re sensing that companies are about to get serious with it at CES 2009. Case in point: Alioscopy and TCL have tag-teamed in order to showcase the former’s 3DHD autostereoscopic 3D LCD display (40-inch) and content creation technology in just under a month. There are no real details on the underlying juju, but you can bet we’re stoked to see what it delivers in Vegas. Maybe those plans for a 3D Olympics in 2012 aren’t all that loony after all?

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Alioscopy’s 40-inch 3DHD autostereoscopic LCD headed for CES: no glasses required originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handhelds

We simply can’t get enough of cheap, nasty, and niche Windows CE devices — which is why the iOpen-081A is like music to our ears. Awesome music. This garish pile of plastic does just about everything you’d want a portable device to do, unless you need to do a lot of data entry (or any, since it doesn’t have a keyboard of any sort). Still, the iOpen features a 480 x 272 touchscreen display, an ARM926 CPU, 2GB of flash storage, 64MB of SDRAM, 802.11b/g, GPS, SD and MMC card support, as well as a USB port for hooking up something like a keyboard or flash drive. As a media player, it seems to support all of the familiar formats (MP3, MP4, WMA, AVI), and we wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few emulators hanging around on this bad boy. Hey, if you’ve got 2300 yuan (about $336) to spare and absolutely no concerns about what your devices look like, you could do worse.

[Via Pocketables]

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