Japanese hardware outfit Toshiba used this year’s IFA conference in Berlin to unveil a large screen 3-D television that doesn’t require special glasses to experience 3D content.

The 55-inch (139cm) television, dubbed the 55ZL2, comes equipped with a Quad Full HD screen, and works on the glasses-free 3D technology that simultaneously delivers faintly different images to the viewer's left eye and right eye, which are then united in the brain to create the 3-D effect.

The television’s glasses-free 3D application is powered by the manufacturer’s high-performance multi-processor platform, called CEVO-ENGINE that also lets many more innovative applications such as PERSONAL-TV.

The 55ZL2 also features an Auto Calibration that promises studio level picture quality. Its SMART-TV functions offer access to Toshiba Places, the company’s online platform that allows streaming, purchasing and sharing Web-based content.

The Toshiba 55ZL2 will hit German store shelves in December this year, but release dates for other European countries are yet to be announced.