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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
Netwalker Suggests That Sharp Sleepwalked Through The Last Few Years
11:00AM Joanna Stern | No matter what kind of consumer electronics you make it seems you’ve got to add some sort of internet device to the portfolio. Sharp’s addition (at least in Japan) is its 5-inch Netwalker that has a touchscreen and runs Ubuntu. More »
Phones
Sharp Mirumo 934SH Features Two-Face LCD
3:40AM Mark Wilson | Just a taste of Japan’s still-fantastical mobile phone market can be seen in the Sharp Mirumo 934SH. It’s a waterproof clamshell that’s pretty ordinary, until you realise its display is dual-sided. More »
Gadgets
Hey Everybody, Take A Cue From Sharp
7:20AM Mark Wilson | Electronics manufacturers, if you insist on releasing 100 infinitesimally differing televisions, camcorders or back shavers, take a cue from Sharp. They laid out their entire new DX2 line (LCD TVs with integrated Blu-ray) in one handy graphic. [AkihabaraNews via Ubergizmo] More »
Screens
