3DTV

So, 3D’s the “new” big thing. It combines the joy of wearing uncomfortable glasses with the terror of people pointing RIGHT AT YOU! However, as awesome as an extra dimension is, companies have are apparently hard pressed to actually sell their 3D TVs, since watching “Clash of the Titans” is torture enough without having to don annoying eyewear to get the full experience.

Fortunately, Toshiba has been hard at work to correct that annoying glasses problem, even though they look so cool.

Their Regza series of TV’s brags 3D viewing without any glasses. The technology is similar to Nintendo’s proposed handheld game system, the 3DS, in that it provides a “sweet spot” where you can view the screen from to produce a 3D effect. By customizing the pixels on their screen, they claim it has a reasonable viewing area for various angles. However, it’s limited to a fairly small screen size, coming in either 12-inch or 20-inch flavors.

The plan is to release these onto the Japanese market by the end of the year. The 12-inch screen will go for 120,00 yen, or about $1,500 while the 20-inch will go for 240,000 yen, or about $2,900. Don’t plan on saving up just yet though, since there aren’t any announced plans to bring these sets to any other countries. Looks like we’re stuck buying plastic shades for a while.