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Japan mobile phone goes 3D
Wooo Hooo
The company whose name sounds like a sneeze, Hitachi have built a phone with a 3D display with an even dafter name.
The Wooo H001 costs $510 and has a tiny button that says "3D" below the keyboard. If you push it, and the screen's image will appear three-dimensional, seeming to protrude slightly from the 3.1-inch liquid crystal display.
By sending a slightly different image to each eye, the 3D cell phone creates the illusion of 3D, almost like a miniature hologram. You don't need dippy glasses to see the image but you have to be holding it at a particular angle.
There are no plans to flog the gizmo outside Japan so no one will know what a daft name it has.