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History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Last year, LCD TVs made up about 50 per cent of global TV sales. That’s a huge number. Not bad for a technology that’s only 40 years old or so… More »
The Evolution Of LCD
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Last year, LCD TVs made up about 50 per cent of global TV sales. That’s a huge number. Not bad for a technology that’s only 40 years old or so… More » 
Music
4:00PM Nick Broughall | I thought soundbars were supposed to create a virtual sense of surround sound. But apparently Sharp’s new HT-SB400 is happy enough playing the front three speakers, offering 3.1 sound in a thin, wall mountable audio solution. More »
New Sharp Soundbar Offers 3.1 Audio
4:00PM Nick Broughall | I thought soundbars were supposed to create a virtual sense of surround sound. But apparently Sharp’s new HT-SB400 is happy enough playing the front three speakers, offering 3.1 sound in a thin, wall mountable audio solution. More »
Screens
11:07AM Nick Broughall | It’s taken a while, but it looks like Australia will be getting a proper national TV and PC recycling system within the next couple of years. Finally! More »
Australia Getting A Proper TV And PC Recycling System
11:07AM Nick Broughall | It’s taken a while, but it looks like Australia will be getting a proper national TV and PC recycling system within the next couple of years. Finally! More »
Vehicles
5:46PM Nick Broughall | This is the team behind the solar car which won the Global Green challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide. Seems to me that they would have been pretty crowded in that thing… More »
But How Do They All Fit In Such A Compact Car?
5:46PM Nick Broughall | This is the team behind the solar car which won the Global Green challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide. Seems to me that they would have been pretty crowded in that thing… More »
Deals
9:30AM Nick Broughall | We’ve seen Sony and Panasonic’s special TV Christmas bundles, but tipster Luke has pointed us towards the Sharp offer, where purchase of selected Aquos LCDs sees you eligible for an Xbox 360 Elite bundled with four “premium” games. More »
Sharp Bundling Their Aquos LCDs With Xbox 360s
9:30AM Nick Broughall | We’ve seen Sony and Panasonic’s special TV Christmas bundles, but tipster Luke has pointed us towards the Sharp offer, where purchase of selected Aquos LCDs sees you eligible for an Xbox 360 Elite bundled with four “premium” games. More »
Science
Sharp Triple Layer Solar Cell Sets New Efficiency Record
7:17AM Chris Jacob | The gauntlet has been thrown down yet again in the solar cell efficiency arms race. This time Sharp comes up with a cell that can harvest 35.8 per cent of available sunlight. More »
Business
AT&T Sues The Pants Off Of Price Fixing LCD Manufacturers
3:39AM John Herrman | AT&T and the LCD industry make for strange courtfellows, but wait’ll you hear what for: AT&T claims that due to LCD price fixing by LG and Sharp, they’ve overpaid for 300 million handsets. Interestingly, they’re not thrilled about this. More »
Hardware
Sharp Develops Laser Capable Of Burning 100GB Blu-Ray Discs
9:05AM Rosa Golijan | Sharp has announced that they’ve been working on a laser which would “allow a drive to read twice as deep as current dual-layer Blu-ray drives” and “let it write at 8X speed on all four layers.” Wowza. What this means is that we might be seeing triple-layer and quad-layer Blu-ray discs with capacities of up to 100GB in the future. More »
Music
Sharp’s DK-AP8P iPhone Dock Touch Remote 3X Better Than An iPod
1:31AM Matt Buchanan | Another day, another iPod dock. But Sharp’s DK-AP8P’s got something others don’t: A glossy remote with not one, but three iPod-style touchwheels. We couldn’t quite figure out how to use them, but that doesn’t matter because there’s three of them. More »
Computers
