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Originally Posted by maxhifi

This is it, scroll down to "world's first LCD TV"

I read about it a couple years after it was introduced, apparently.

http://sharp-world.com/corporate/inf...989/index.html

Reading a little further on that page I see a claim about a refrigerator.

"Dual-Swing Door Refrigerator

Other new products included the industry's first refrigerator which allowed the same door to open from either side, and an English-Japanese translation system that used OCR (optical character recognition) to read English text and translate it into Japanese."

Did they not know of Philco's V-Handle refrigerator from the 1950's?