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Windows that Double as LCD Monitors

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everything-should-be-multi-purpose dept.

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."

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  1. Opaque LCD windows by soapbox · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...