Ever since Sony's PSone popularized the concept of game consoles with an LCD screen on top, third party manufacturers have rushed to produce copy-cat devices for each and every console under the sun.
Asahi in Japan offers the first word on how the 3DS achieves its 3D-ness by suggesting that the new portable game machine with feature a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp.
"I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve the efficiency of LCD displays, " said Yang Yang, a professor of materials science at UCLA Engineering and principal investigator on the research.