Nintendo 3DS: Glasses No More

Nintendo 3DS is finally launching in Japan on February 26 next year and will be available in the US the following month. So what's new with the new Nintendo DS?

Nintendo 3DS will have new functions like a slide pad, a motion sensor and a gyro-sensor. It will have parental controls like in the Nintendo DSi series. The Nintendo 3DS is compatible with game cartridges in the Nintendo DS 

So why or how can Nintendo show 3D games without 3D glasses? Parallax barrier is Nintendo 3DS's secret. A parallax barrier is

one of the more popular ways for showing 3D without glasses. Nintendo worked with Sharp 3DTVs which are the ones who makes the Nintendo 3DS's screens. Instead of having glasses filter the image for each eye, the screen's parallax barrier directs different light into each eye and our brain turns it to a 3D image. It's like a barrier between your eyes and the screen which acts like a substitute for the 3D glasses. Using Sharp's techniques, you can turn off the parallax barrier and go back to regular 2D viewing.

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Specifications:

CPU: 2 x 266MHz ARM11

GPU: PICA200 133MHz GPU by DMP

RAM: 64MB

Video RAM: 4MB

Storage: 1.5GB Flash-based

-Measured at 134mm by 74mm and 21mm thick

-Weighs 230 grams.

-The top screen is 3.53 inches and with an liquid crystal display of 800 x 240 pixels. 

-The button screen is 3.02 inches with a liquid crystal display of 320 x 240 pixels.

-It has two outer 0.3 megapixel cameras and one inside the portable's clamshell.

-WiFi Ready

- has a game cartridge slot, an SD card slot, a slot for the AC adapter and headphone jack. 

-built-in mic

-powered by lithium ion battery.

What's inside the box?

The Nintendo 3DS comes bundled with a charger stand (above), an AC adapter, a 10cm Nintendo 3DS touch pen, a 2GB SD card, six augmented reality cards as well as instruction booklets.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk ; gizmodo.com