SHARP’s LCD HISTORY

• 1915 - Sharp founder, Tokuuji Hayakawa invents the Ever-Sharp Pencil, the world’s first practical mechanical pencil, the Ever-Sharp Pencil. From this device the company took its name.



• 1953 - Sharp is Japan’s first mass producer of televisions sets, coinciding with Japan’s first television broadcasts.



• 1963 - Sharp is the first company in Japan to mass produce solar cells.



• 1973 - The world’s first practical application of LCDs was seen in the Sharp EL-805 calculator’s Liquid Crystal Display.



• 1987 - Sharp created a thin liquid crystal display module with more pixels than any LCD TV in the industry at that time.



• 1991 - In 1991, Sharp introduced the world's first wall-mount LCD TV, incorporating the industry's largest 8.6-inch TFT LCD with 437,760 pixels, adhering to Sharp's high standards of brightness and picture clarity.



• 2000 - In 2000 Sharp developed the world’s first built-in camera mobile phone that could send photos via email.



• 2004 - Sharp opens a factory in Kameyama, Japan. The Kameyama factory has one of the world’s largest rooftop solar arrays, and the world’s smallest carbon footprint for an LCD TV producing factory.



• 2007 - In 2007 Sharp developed the world¹s first 108-inch* LCD display. **
  
  *107 17/32” Diagonal
  **As of January 8, 2007

About Sharp's LifeChangingBox.com

Sharp's Life Changing Box is part of a marketing strategy developed to promote a new campaign from Lowe New York. The client sponsoring the application was revealed to be SHARP.
LifeChangingBox.com was originally a mysterious website designed to intrigue users and until Sharp was revealed as the client behind Life Changing Box, users were encouraged to guess what was inside the “Life Changing Box.”
This was all part of a first of its kind Facebook contest and ran from June 12th to July 14th , 2008. Thousands of dollars in prizes were awarded to players of the Facebook Lifechangingbox game.
Lifechangingbox.com is now an interactive flash based informational site designed to educate about SHARP as the official HDTV of Major League Baseball, commitment towards the environment, and groundbreaking LCD technology.
About Lowe Worldwide Lowe Worldwide is an interconnected global community of marketing agencies. Its client roster includes Unilever, Saab, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle and Stella Artois. The agency is founded on the belief that the greatest service it can render its clients is High Value Ideas coupled with Problem Biased Thinking. Lowe is a member of
Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world’s leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. Lowe New York is one of the cornerstones of Lowe Worldwide with a client roster including Milk, Perdue, XM, Sharp and more. www.loweny.com