The early 3-D leader, Japan's Sharp Electronics, has sold 3 million mobile phones that transform 2-D photographs into 3-D images using screen filters and software.

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But Akira Imai, a 3-D researcher at Sharp, says the effect goes away with time and can be reduced by avoiding images that pop too far off the screen.

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Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) finished one second adrift of Evans, the same time as Italian Vincenzo Nibali, rated by many as the main rival to Wiggins and Evans.

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It looks fancy and may come in handy on occasion, but didn't feel to us like a very reliable way of picking a good, sharp image -- we'd still use the more traditional best shot mode for that.

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His positions on social issues stand in sharp contrast to Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill.

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But mission controllers soon expect to be taking sharp, full-color images in 3-D, panoramas and high-definition videos of Gale Crater.

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Hardis, a sharp-tongued transplant from New York City, knows the model he'd like to follow: Emerson Electric, which gets its handsome multiple (20 times expected earnings) from operating performance rather than empire building.

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We're also worried that a slate PC designed like this won't have a way of protecting the screen from the sharp poky objects that sometimes accidentally make their way into our bag -- we'd feel much more secure with some sort of scratchproof glass up front instead of this soft plastic finish.

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Sharp is considering unveiling laptops later this year that can convert any DVD movie into 3-D.

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Katzenberg is mystified by the sharp knives that are being pointed--prematurely, in his view--at 3-D.

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