Sharp said it has developed the world’s first LCD panel that allows the viewing of three different images on one screen at the same time. The new LCD panel would, for example, allow the driver of a car to view a navigation system, the passenger to look at shopping and restaurant information and a person in the back seat to watch a movie. Last year Sharp unveiled a panel that allowed the viewing of two different images. That panel is already being used in car navigation systems, Sharp said.

The quirkiest product appearing at this week’s DEMOfall 2006 conference, a springboard for tech startups, had rabbit ears–and not the kind for televisions. Violet, a small French company, showed off a plastic white bunny named Nabaztag that connects wirelessly to a home’s computer network. Its ears can twirl or point up or down to notify you of incoming email or the rise and fall of stocks. It can read emails or news headlines aloud, converting the text to speech. It can announce the time or play songs from your digital music collection. Dash Navigation unveiled the first car navigation device designed to constantly stay connected to the Internet. The always-connected feature lets Dash Express do more than the current crop of satellite-navigation products. The gadget taps cellular and public wireless, or Wi-Fi, signals to stay linked to the Web, getting the freshest available data on traffic conditions. It can also do Web searches for locations or products, the cheapest gas around, or movie times–and then direct you to the destination.

GPS Tuner is an off-road navigation software for Pocket PC devices. While most car navigation software gives you the possibility of planning your route based on a road network, GPS Tuner gives you the ability of navigation where the roads end. GPS Tuner is an excellent tool for hiking, geocaching, boating, flying, driving and many other sporting activities. GPS Tuner is an excellent tool for hiking, geocaching, boating, flying, driving and many other sporting activities, where the monitoring of duration, distance and speed can be important.

LightWav Pro is a custom Treo ringtone and picture/video ID manager from ToySoft. It has a number of detailed calling features that allow you to create custom mp3/ogg/wav ringtones, assign custom picture caller ID and Video caller ID and caller ID and SMS blocking. It is also the only program that offers full screen picture caller ID. This update includes new remote SMS locking if you device is lost, custom Pickup+Hangup times and other small updates.

The format war around next generation DVDs may be over before it has begun, thanks to a breakthrough from a British media technology company. Britain-based New Medium Enterprises said on Tuesday it had solved a technical production problem that makes it possible to produce a cheap multiple-layer DVD disk containing one film in different, competing formats.

Epson has expanded its multimedia storage viewer series with the announcement of the P-5000 and P-3000 models. The P-5000 is built around Epson’s clear, bright, colorful 4 inch Photo Fine Ultra color LCD in a sleek, compact and durable high quality aluminium casing. It’s perfect for viewing images during a shoot, and features long battery life, built-in Compact Flash and Secure Digital memory card slots and a 80GB hard drive. The P-3000 model features the same bright 4 inch LCD monitor and a 40GB hard drive.

DigitalLife 2006, the consumer technology, gaming, and entertainment event of the year, will be taking place October 12-15, 2006 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. This year, promoters are offering FREE tickets to this year’s event (regular price is $15). To redeem these tickets, just use the source code “INSIDER” on this page, where you can print out your own tickets.

Kingston Technology announced it will begin producing the new Secure Digital High-Capacity card and enhance the function of its existing 15-in-1 Reader to support the growing storage demands of high performance digital still cameras, digital video cameras and other high resolution image recording devices. The new SDHC memory cards are available now in 4GB capacities with a retail price of $199.00 USD through Kingston’s global network of resellers.

Earthcomber has been awarded a patent for a location-based search system that allows individuals to constantly sweep their surroundings for their personal interests. The patented method provides a means to notify a user about people, places and things nearby that match that person’s specific preferences. By law, advertisers cannot transmit messages to mobile consumers without their permission. Earthcomber’s method allows an advertiser’s message to reach the user if the user has stated an explicit preference for something that the advertiser offers, and if the advertiser is within the user’s specified range. The patent is also expected to provide a foundation for social networking on mobile devices. For example, mobile users can be alerted about friends nearby, or people with common characteristics. The company features the methodology in its free, location-based personal navigation suite for Palm OS, Windows Mobile Pocket PC, and Java-capable cell phones and PDAs.

SanDisk introduced a 4GB SanDisk Ultra II SD High Capacity card to meet the growing demand for higher capacity storage. The new cards can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video.