Anti-Glare Computer Screens That Work in Sunlight?

Belfont9 asks: "The company I work for operates in a very sunny climate, and our facilities rely almost completely on natural light. The problem for our coders is that all that light makes reading a computer screen for many hours truly painful - even if we use the standard 'anti-glare' screen covers. Dimming the entire rooms (eg through the use of shades) isn't an option. Could the Slashdot community suggest some good computer screens for use in such conditions?"

Comments

Spray

[beswicks]

I've never tried this on monitors, but, you can get spray for use when taking photographs of 'shiny' things, which stops the flash from refecting straight back at the camera.

I did a quick google search and found this. It would certainly be a cheap place to start.

Change your schedule

[Basje]

In many southern european and in tropical countries, people sleep during the afternoon, and work early in the morning and in the evening. This could help you too.

Or, even more extreme, code during the night and sleep during the day.

I realise this is not an answer to your question, which is a way to implement a solution to a problem. Rather, it may be another solution to your problem. Plz give it some thought.

You need shade

[KurdtX]

You should check out lacie monitors. Notice the little screen "hood" they use? Not that I'm suggesting you buy one, but I've worked with guys who did the same thing with some cardboard & scissors or an umbrella. One guy even brought in a kiddie pool (turned upside down) - he won major style points for that one.

Maybe once management sees the proliferation of umbrellas and cardboard they might get the idea that if they don't solve Engineer's problems, they're going to solve it themselves, no matter the cost to the company's "image". Yeah, the execs outlawed umbrellas and cardboard where I used to work, but the Engineers developed the attititude: "What are you going to do, fire me?". Sure you could argue that it would just give them a reason to fire you, but I found it actually only gave them reasons to get rid of the programmers who couldn't cut it anyway, so it worked out for the rest of us. I left 'cause my internship was over and I had to go back to school, but last I heard neither side had budged, and had become a moot argument.