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Windows that Double as LCD Monitors
Mynister writes "The AP has a story about the windows of the future they can go from clear to opaque and the can also act as an LCD TV or Computer Monitor. They accomplish it by placing a LCD Screen over the window and embed the speakers in the frame."
The AP has a story about the windows of the future they can go from clear to opaque and the can also act as an LCD TV or Computer Monitor.
Does Bill Gates know about this development? I smell a lawsuit...
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Further, can they legally call them the 'W' word?
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Ah, to be able to kick back in the den on a summer's evening, watching the sun sink slowly below the horizon, and then *CLICK* Matrix Re-re-re-reloaded, without even having to move my eyeballs!
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The perfect addition to that corner office!
This is basically an LCD monitor, using the sun instead of a backlight. Brings a new meaning to Microsoft's "Windows Everywhere" ads.
I'm generally "Interesting," "Insightful," and even "Funny" here. What the hell happens to me at parties?
I would love it if I could flip a switch and my window would show an image instead of me being able to see my "generously-proportioned" neighbour empty his garbage in the nude. Yes, yes... I know I could also use curtains... but that's so low-tech!
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Reminds me of the translucent displays in "Minority Report" and other futuristic movies. The future is now!
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
Ahh, imagine the world of that hot girl you live beside undressing behind her opaque window and you change it to transparent.
Glorious!
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This seems pretty cool to me.
I just bought a house, and it has a beautiful living room with windows on each side. I like it because I can soak in the view from the windows. But I don't like it because the light from the windows can completely overwhelm the brightness of my screen.
It would be very cool to have my window turn partially transparent so I could still enjoy the view but not have it overwhelm the screen. Very cool idea.
Anyone know how much this costs?
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So instead of windows crashing.. does that mean it windows will shatter instead?
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So your neighbors too can watch that spicy channel late night?
No thanks, I'll stick to regular.
With a flip of the switch the glass panes around the front door switch from clear, left, to opaque
From the photo, I wouldn't call that "opaque". Maybe "translucent" would be the better word.
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that most computer users need is to block out more of the outside world.
I recommend a window BESIDE your monitor.
Instead of wasting wall space on projector/screen pair just have the windows switch to Opaque CRT mode and feed them the feed of your power point, video, or what ever.
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Ever had that experience with the neighbors who never close their windows when they're being intimate? What happens now when we have neighbors who don't realize their pornography is displayed right on their windows?
Clever, but why?
No one's going to want these in their house. Maybe I can think of some industrial applications. But even then one would probably wish them to be see through. It's a personal jetpack equivalent for the exceptionally sedintary at best.
Great, so everyone outside will be able to see what you're looking at on your computer (in reverse of course). The FBI warning on videotapes and DVDs states that the program is only for private home use. Will playing a movie on one of these window/screens be a violation? :)
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I don't want the entire neighborhood seeing what sort of fetish pron I indulge in.
So when I say 'on screen' will my living room window show the bridge of the Klingon warship orbiting the planet?
"I was channel flipping, and all of a sudden I saw this awesome car drive down the street!"
Would people outside be able to see what you're watching? (In reverse, natch.)
"I love my translucent windows in MacOS X; now I can watch the grass grow while I surf the web!"
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Looks like it will always be a sunny day at my house! And I can look into getting a condo without having to worry about the view. At least this seems like a lot less work than this.
They accomplish it by placing a LCD Screen over the window and embed the speakers in the frame.
Wow, now that's innovation.
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er... so then we will have windows on our windows, also the windows operating system. So we could have windows on our windows desktop, which is on our windows. Im confusing myself
I need one of these magic windows on the door to my office. It could run a video of myself, appearing to be sitting at my desk coding feverishly when I am actually sitting at my desk posting to stuffy matter news sites. Oh wait. What did I need the magic window for?
The market for screensavers will skyrocket - instead of seeing the cruddy building across the street, you can now see a tropical panorama or whatever else makes you feel like you're living in the middle of some asphalt jungle. Sell your stock in curtains and shades manufacturers before this arrives to a store near you, though.
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Maybe the technology is better now but this is at least a decade old. I can't wait until they get this cheap enough for "normal people" to have them in their house though.
will see what porn you are watching :)
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I can see it now. My kid throws a ball that breaks the window and now it will cost me thousands of dollars instead of hundreds to fix it.
"Are you staring at our neighbor's teenage daughter sunbathing again, you pervert?!"
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So, when every Window is a computer monitor / tv / sterio capable of displaying the latest high-resolution mars photos and OSX/KDE/gnome desktop (or Windows desktop for those less advantaged), who retains the trademark on Windows(tm).
:-)
Microsoft, or Anderson?
Or do we all now have to start calling our windows "glass enclosures" on pain of lawsuit?
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This reminds me of what Bill Gates did with his house, substituting LCD monitors for paintings. While customized lighting is cool, how many people are going to pay even $100 extra for a window that becomes opaque when blinds just work. If I remember correctly, Gates had a whole pile of the technology removed from his house because it was too much of a nuisance.
Just another reason to shoot for that corner office with all the windows eh? (But install blinds or drapes on the outside if you want to view pr0n.) Using them all as monitors would really give my mouse arm a real geek work-out.
Add a video camera and a hard drive and you've got yourself some slow glass (as per Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes collection of stories. Hoopy.
Of course it's going off the rails. How else is it ever going to fly?
Sounds great... Now I can go out and get that new bay window/monitor I've always wanted. Not only is the thing 65", but the neighbors can see when I'm surfing p0rn.
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If I had a rock when I used Windows, BSOD's would be expensive.
I wonder what effect temperatures of >100f or 0f will have on these things. Especially cold, with the attendant water/frost condensation.
For about a decade there has been the technology that allowed office windows to go opaque by using LCD sheets between the panes and a low-voltage current to dim or darken them. The Soviets/Russians developed this idea a long time ago but had little use for it, and after 1991, neither did we...
Now if they'd just give me an office with a window, I could have that nice view of Standing Indian Mountain I've always wanted...
Will -20 degree days (like most of the northeastern US is having today), or 105 degree+ days in direct sunlight damage them? How about having a radiator right below it (my parents' house has most of its heating system just below windows)? Ah, and lets not forget dog saliva and claw scratches.
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Does anyone else see that all this new tech is just contibuting to porn?? I think all these inventors just want to get there rocks off!
Geesh.. Now even our living room view will be proprietary. What next?
First of all, I would like to Thank Bill Gates for bringing the stable and ultra reliable operating system and PC to the masses.
I want to know, how can Windows, as good as it is, double up as an LCD display?
Makes me think that one could have some pretty racy screensavers and wallpaper. Actually could be really cool for party decorations and holidays.
Would also be cool if you put up a divx/mp2 of some Ron Jermey film for all the neighbors and potential home buyers in the area to see as they drive by. Bet you get a few wives coming over to sell the girl scout cookies.
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I'm sure slashdot'll have numerous dupes of this story in six to ten days...
maybe it just reads that way for now?
seemed like they had an even spread just a few short months agoo.
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And venitian blinds. Window coverings will automatically appear with the flip of a switch. I wonder how efficent these new windows are with regards to heat-loss.
What would be cool is to leave most of the window transparent and add a few images to spice up your backyard. Want to add a shade tree? Go for it!
Want to add something iteresting under the tree? Put a picture of Newton under the tree and have it drop an apple on his head once in a while. Too geeky? How about a nude model sunbathing...
That will make the local vandals happy.
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Ahhh... yes, the question that everyone wants the answer to... Does it run linux?
Microsoft will sue them for trademark violation -- after all, it's "Windows" in the context of a computer display.
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why this is a bad investment:
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Anyone else see it? You get a free house, or some other incentive, paid for by advertisements displayed in your windows both inside and out. Its the ULTIMATE Tivo work-around for the advertisement industry.
just windows interpretation of the sky
With child obesity on the rise, we're now scaring them with the idea that that baseball through Old Man Peterson's window is going to cost them several thousand dollars. They'll never leave the house. I'm not a kid, but I am a klutz.
Also, these windows would have to be ridiculously insulated. I mean insulated electrically and from changes in temperature. It wouldn't be any good for there to be condensation on your screen (for picture quality) and without proper electrical insulation, that could mean a nasty shock (ugh..) for some homeowners.
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>>...a window that would turn opaque when a current was brought through it.
And that would be different from 1970s-era LCD technology, in what way?
>>And to think, it only took 15 years for this to go from "MAGIC TV LAND" to reality!
The Marketing Weasels were a little preoccupied during the dot-bomb era convincing retailers that yes, indeed, people really do want to buy cat litter and doggie kibbles via a web site. Cut 'em some slack... they'll get back to real-world problems eventually.
with only won thing to look at.
yikes. i mean yuk? i mean pheWWW
if i read won more storIE about gw butchIE boy, i'm going to rejoin the ncp, & ppr initiatives, & suggest some of y'all holdouts re-think your owned status.
So if the windows are running Windows and Windows crashes will the windows break?
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Theres so many things wrong with this invention. First you can't watch television during the day, not without lowing the blind, which defeats the purpose of the window all togeather, it might as well be on the wall so that natural light can come in. Can you see the tv from the other side?... backwards? Does this mean people can see what you're watching? Can you open the window once its there? You probably don't even want to touch it its so expensive. and wait until the neighbour's kid hits a baseball through this one. It won't be a simple matter of finding $50, he'll need 50K! I prefer my tv on the wall, not in the window. The only good thing about this invention is that the screen is so thin... but is it? or is it just transparent...
From the article -
We're a multitasking species. We want to do everything in every room," Plautz said. "We should expect our windows to do the same."
Really ? Do we really do everything in every room? Where does Plautz poop, for instance ? In his bedroom ?
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Well, there goes the old phrase "If you live in a glass house, don't walk around naked" Just hope it doesn't crash and go transparent when you are doing what-ever-you-are-doing-naked
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Ah inventions from movies....
Now instead of looking out the window or wall, I can have breakfast at the beach!
I guess the next thing they'll come out with is fingernail polish that changes with a click.
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What would people see on the other side. Would they just get like a white image, would they be able to see what you are looking at.
or with the way ads are going now a-days would you see a commercial for some new and improved product on the backside.
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Okay, so you've got your window/display, and there's a camera on the outside showing what's going on outside.
You tap the part of the display that corresponds to the sky, and you get the weather report. Or you tap the part that is displaying the street, and you get a traffic report. You tap your neighbor's house, and it gives you their name(s), phone number(s), whatever info you have on them on your computer. Could be interesting.
Imagine seeing unsolicited advertised around you house all the time!
That's my porn, I'm not sharing with the neighbors.
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Maybe this "window turns TV/monitor" thing can be feasible for an internal window (e.g. between rooms). But I just can't believe it will ever be able to show a well balanced color image (photo/video) both when it's night and clear day outside. Neither projection TVs nor Plasmas are able to display a good "black color".
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Backyard Baseball/Golf just got a LOT more expensive...
Just think how awsome the pr0n will look. :)
This looks like the same technology used in Sum of All Fears when they walk into the glass room with panels and it goes to a white opaque.
That would be one time when we could run Linux on windows.
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... at a home improvement trade show. Not capable of display but of varying the opacity of the glass, thus obviating blinds or shades. Man, they were expensive. About $5,000 for a typical window! I figured by now, I'd at least see them available them in cars. Flying cars.
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Just being able to go from transparent to opaque could be a great feature. Think of small apartments with these windows instead of walls; transparency between rooms would make the place feel larger and more livable. If your friends come over you can just darken the windows to your messy kitchen. (You would probably want to make sure that the controls for the windows to the bathroom don't fall into the wrong hands...)
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You use the windows then to simulate any size house you want. I recall an Isaac Asimov novel about this premise.
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I thought progress was supposed to eliminate extra steps?
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The scenery channel.
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The future of windows! This is so cool! I knew this whole Linux thing was just a fad and that Bill Gates would lead Microsoft and bring Windows into the new millennium with a gusto! I just knew that...
Oh...
Wait...
Wrong type of windows.
My bad.
(That officially ends my horribly bad attempt at humor for the day)
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Why does this need to be only home windows? What about car windows? Or airplane windows? It would definately be nice to have an escalade where the side windows are your monitors instead of little tiny 5" lcds.
What about in your taxi cab? If the screen between you actually showed you a map of where you are, connected to gps so you know if the driver is taking you the direct way or not.
Still this would be awesome for custom cars. No need to paint images of pr*n on you car. You have full screen video now.
The comment has already been made. Let's move it along people. Nothing to see here.
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Great. Soon I can stare at Windows on my monitors built into my windows.
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And what happens when the temperature drops below 0F? Don't LCD's have a freezing point? Windows get very cold in the winter, especially in northern climates...
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Doesn't sound as exciting once you read the article. Yes it uses LCD but only for the transparency, the picture is actually projected onto the screen from a projector. A mix of modern day technology. Glass that go black and transparent have been around for a while, the only different I could see is that this would go white so the projector has a nice screen to work from.
...can see the mirror image of the porn I'm watching?
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Take a look at the AP photo (which is clearly of a rendering) and look at the size of the shoes in perspective of the door and height of the door handle. Would have been nice to see a real picture.
Which would seem more surprising if it weren't sponsored by a window company!
But, does it run windows?
During the night, you can just use a handy 25 lb solar-powered flourescent light. I'll tell you more once you fill out the check... ... suckers.
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But what makes the two-story, 6,000 square-foot home different from any other is what's inside -- the windows. They turn from clear to opaque white with the push of a button. Many double as speakers, computer monitors or television sets.
Wouldn't that let everyone in the neighborhood see what you're watching or surfing on your "window", but reversed?
But, integrate one of these with a big touch-sensitive area, and you have those cool mission-planning vertical planes of glass that you see in SF movies.
And, a trick you can play on visitors to your house -- when they ask where the bathroom is, point them at the big "window" you have displaying a fake hallway, and watch them bump their noses on it!
Could you really use direct sun as a backlight? At least with a monitor, if the sun gets on it I can shift it: it would suck to have to stop work because the sun is directly behind the window you're working on.
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True story.
When I first read the title I thought is said:
Windows that Double as LSD Monitors
I thought "Oh crud, now Windows is gonna know I'm on LSD all day"
Strangely, I'm not tripping now.
Just imagine the impact of your kid breaking a window now. "No TV tonight, junior..."
Or having a "dead" pixel (or line) in your "window". The cleaning-lady spends 5 bottles of windex trying to get that one off...
Hey, I can't even roll my shades up when the electricity is out, imagine sitting in the dark in your room, when there's full sunlight out there, because the LCD is opaque and there's a power outage...
Yep, I'd buy one of those, thanks.
The display technology is very cool but probably has some issues with backlighting to work out, YMMV.
I guess I am most suprised that this sort of thing hasn't taken off. However, at the same time I wrote that I was thinking of the half a dozen light switches in every room of my mom's new house, and explaing to her what each did (and suggesting she invest in a lable maker). Followed by explinations of what the ethernet jacks were for, and how to use her convection+induction microwave to heat a cup of coffee. My personal favorite is her remote control fireplace. The power went out a day after she moved in, and she called to tell me that she had no heat and couldn't turn on the fireplace.
Hmm, maybe the average homeowner doesnt need space age windows.
This is great, now whenever I move, I'll have to transport my extremely expensive and fragile windows around as well! Talk about a great idea!
I hope this process goes as smoothly as when moving the Windows operating system onto a new computer.
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My friend and ex roommate works at that plant in Bayport. He's been working there since he got out of high school. He makes those windows and the people that work there put alot of themselves into their windows(he used to come home bloody at least once a week cause he was trying to work to fast). They work that damn crazy swingshift too, every 2 weeks they move to a different one. I know pretty much whole families that work there, father's son's, brothers. It's easy to tell when people are coming and going from Andersens. There's a huge line of cars that roll through Stillwater Mn 15 minutes prior and after shift changes. Alot of their workers are actually from wisconsin and alot live by me. I live in a unincorporated town about 25 miles north of bayport and our one and only gas station has a nice little feild dedicated to parking for Andersen's employees that are carpooling.
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My co-worker gets 90% off of Andersen windows (bunch of his family works there too).Gonna see how much I can get these babies for when they set a price.
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I definately cant wait to test one of them out. No doubt my old roomy's gonna deck his house out with these. He can hook his multitude of consoles to them. I can imagine him playing his atari on there so all his neighboors can see him kick ass at pong. hehe
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The AP has a story about the windows of the future they can go from clear to opaque and the can also act as an LCD TV or Computer Monitor.
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I'm pretty sure that I saw these Windows being demonstrated at the Imaginarium in Epcot Center in 1997. It might have been as early as 1993 even. They had a little room set up with them, flip a switch and all of a sudden you couldn't seen out of the windows. Pretty cool. The LCD monitor technology was not included, but I remember that LCDs were what made it work...
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is a double-paned window.
Insert some Windows joke about opaque code here.
How well do they do when there's frost on the inside of the window?
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With LCD displays that big, why bother with windows at all? Replace all your windows with giant LCD displays, and anyone can live next to the beach.
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Green means go. To go, you hit the gas peddle. Odd how the words greeen, gas, and go start with a G. Anywho, i wouldn't mind a HUD or expressing what I think of some of the drivers around me.
Oh wait. You mean that kind of windows. I thought this story was about something else. Never mind. I guess I'be been reading too much Slashdot.
Now you can combine your main pasttime with your second great love: internet porn! Horray!
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Wait, Wine is about running windows software on linux. This news is about running linux on your windows. Sorry, I got that backwards.
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Everytime I sit inside my car, I ask myself, "why can't my house have power windows like my car?" And you know those windshield washers on cars? Yeah, why don't they have them for homes? They'll save me not only time but also my neck from cleaning.
Either that, or they will "embrace and extend" and we will start a new Dark Age.
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It's called switchable privacy glass. 3M sold them for a while but then discontinued because of technical issues. I think they may have started up again. Here is a company that sells the windows.
I've been waiting more than 5 years for the price to drop to a reasonable level.
Yea, I guess I glanced the article instead of reading it. I went back and read closer after I posted... (feeling very small right now...)
... a routine to cause the infamous 'Blue Screen of Death' whenever the sun is too shiny.
A perfect sunshade to me IMHO.
I think it should be something hell of expensive to put out of the house, easy to steal or broke by accident. Not seems so useful after all.
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won't it be great when the local neighborhood children accidently smack a baseball thru your widescreen tv set...
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I remember hearing about this when i was just a kid.. they featured it on the TV show 'Beyond 2000' (if any of you remember that). THey even showed a real working demo... 10-15 years ago!
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So if you turn your picture window into a huge TV screen, does that mean the neighbors will end up watching everything in reverse?
Previously a number of vendors announced
using a mirror (like a dresser mirror)
as a TV/Computer Screen alternative.
I think these types of devices would be
much more pratical than windows as a
flat visual medium.
Can I get these to replace the windshield and windows in my car? That way I can have it set to "dark tint", but then when the cops pull me over I can switch it to translucent and say, "what's the problem officer". I seem to remember KITT being able to do this in Knight Rider, which just makes it cooler.
Also, on a more serious note, this would be pretty cool for a HUD on your windshield. The display could be dynamic and customizable to the info you wanted to be displayed and where you wanted it displayed. Sweeet.
This link describes an Ice Cream parlor in Florida that has a clear glass bathroom door, activated to opaque by the lock. According to this source they cost $15,000 installed.
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is there a way to use a regular projector to turn a pane of glass into a monitor? HUDs have been around for awhile now, and they simply require a proper surface coating to show up nicely.
... i would be concerned, since windows get broken a lot. Dumb birds, stray baseballs, and clumsy houseguests could be a big problem for the wallet - just to name a few.
This could pose a problem if you live in a dense neighborhood. Everybody will see (in reverse) what you are seeing. This could pose a problem to those nerds who watch pr0n.
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When was the last time anyone used the shitty little embedded speaker in a monitor? Why do they consider now that little tweeter an unseparable part of a computer display?
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Competitors can just watch your window with a cheap digital camera, and see what you're typing.
I imagine this technology being very popular among spooks.
There are a couple of pics here.
It's amusing in the sense that some people fail to read the signs telling them to close and latch the door to set the windows to opaque. While I've never seen it, apparently, some people just go with the clear windows thinking it's one-way mirrored glass.
I'm also aware that the glass's unpowered state is opaque (in case of blackout).
Having there system lockup, poweroff and then getting blasted in the face with sunlight.
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since so many have TVs in them already...
And Disney put it in the "Star Tours" ride c. 1991.
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Wow, there's a beautiful naked woman outside my window.
Keep in mind that GBA's have a reflective LCD screen, while I would imagine that the type of LCD panel necessary for what the article is about is a transparent LCD. Two very different things -- it's basically why shining a light on a laptop screen makes it harder to see, while shining a light on a GBA screen makes it easier to see.
So do you think Microsoft will cry murder?
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Thank god they figured out where to put the speakers. I was afraid I might have to actually get a stereo or something.
Seriously, does anyone find it funny that they still stick speakers in every TV? I'm sorry, but if I can afford a $10,000 television (or even a $1,000 screen) what's the likelihood that I'm actually going to use those crappy built in speakers? Please, just save me a couple bucks and ditch the speakers.
Underground prisons?
I guess you could do that with a normal LCD though.
So whats the weather outside?
I dont know, the windows crashed. All I can see is the blue sky of death....
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Windows, that dulls lcd screens!
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Not only could there be windows that have displays facing inwards, there could also be LCDs on the other side of the window with a display facing the outside world. Surely the concerns about people being able to see what you're looking at from the outside could be solved by a second LCD on the other side of the window.
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I would put something up on the outside similar to my old
You can switch the monitor on for privacy, but all your neighbors will still know you're surfing for porn.
I know windows that turn from clear to opaque have been on the market for at least a couple of years. When I was at an AT&T Network Operations Center in Singapore, they had this between the NOC and an adjoining conference room. I had just sat down in what looked like a fairly typical, non-desccript conference room, when one of the guys there hits a button on a remote control, and suddenly the color on the glass wall fades and the NOC is there in plain sight. It was quite impressive.
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They aren't menat to be monitors at the moment, they look more like a replacement to blinds. Besides i'll never give up my radiation tube!
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
loads burning up electricity in western households. These windows (if i remember correctly) are clear when a current is applied, opaque when it is removed.
What the world doesnt need is a 1000kWh-a-day window blind. sheesh.
For me that's a much more interesting application. Most windows are there to be pretty, but having a transparent background in your program so that you can see what's behind the screen (other cars, your life) while also getting data (Metroid Prime made me want it so bad) would be pretty cool.
Wait till they wire an apartment building with these.
Is this the best people can come up with when they think about technology of the future? I for one think its rediculous. Infact the only pleasure i'd get from having the TV turned on (and being a window) is that it stops the freaking harsh Australian sun getting through.
But then again, in the winter, you want that. TV in a window is a very stupid idea indeed. Just give me a normal flat tv that i can hook up to the puter and i'll be happy.
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This must be expensive to replace when your kids throw the 'ol baseball through them.
Better yet, in hurricane season i'd love to tape up my tv set window to ensure it doesn't shatter all over the place.
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but this reminds me of a scifi short story i once read about "slowglass"..the premise was that one could make glass that light would take (for instance) 10 years to travel through...(either slow down the speed of light, or maybe it sends it through a really winding fiberoptic path that's REALLY long..who knows, who cares, interesting idea). Anyway the point was, you could setup this window at, say, a beachfront house for a few years, then move the window to your mountain cabin, but from inside, you'd still see the (10 year old) view of the beach.
Seems to me, you could do something like that with these, a PC, and a webcam, effectively. useful? hardly, but it's always interesting when technology catches up with a scifi concept, but in a completely new way.. (this story was old enough that most of this tech probably didn't exist)
could be quite the nice feature!
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Ewwwwww, coconut...
you can finally window shop.. ..on e-bay!
I saw somebody using these at a trade show booth 8 years ago.
There's also a scene in the movie Philadelphia where Andy
goes into the board room (to get fired) and they flip a switch and
the windows go from clear to frosty. As I remember, they Foley'ed
in a big "clunk" when the switch is thrown. I guess it needed an audio
cue so you would notice that it happened.
"an opening especially in the wall of a building for admission of light and air that is usually closed by casements or sashes containing transparent material (as glass) and capable of being opened and shut" sounds like a patent!
I want these all over my house. They can work as an LCD screen, showing a picture of outside -- it's like a Steven Wright joke.
Only you could make it seem like your house is in a space warp -- make windows show pictures of what's on other sides of the house. Or what's outside someone else's house.
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I want a transparent background. Turn the street outside into Toon Town.