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'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-glaring-at-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The days of dealing with very reflective glass panels may soon be behind us. Nippon Electric Glass has used the FPD International 2011 conference in Japan this week to show off its new 'invisible glass' panel. What NEG has done is added anti-reflection films to both the front and back of the glass that are only nanometers thick. Look at a typical sheet of glass and you will see about 8% of the light reflected off of it. With NEG's anti-reflection film in place, that is reduced to just 0.5%."

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  1. But Apple by John+Bresnahan · · Score: 5, Funny

    has told me that I want a highly reflective screen!

    1. Re:But Apple by taylorius · · Score: 3, Funny

      You silly, this is not for Apple devices. This is for banks' doors.

      So the banks can blame the special glass when their employees fail to be visible in reflections?

  2. Cool, how durable is it? by jandrese · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's a really cool coating, but will it be destroyed the first time you have to wipe off dust/fingerprints/etc...? I've had this problem with anti-reflective coatings in the past, especially when they get wet for some reason.

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    1. Re:Cool, how durable is it? by gparent · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have anti-glare coating on my glasses and I have none of the problems you describe. My glasses aren't scratch anywhere noticeable, and cleaning it with a lint-free cloth is ridiculously simple.

      Hopefully your glasses aren't as old as your UID; this may explain the problem otherwise as I change mine rather regularly.

    2. Re:Cool, how durable is it? by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

      but will it be destroyed the first time you have to wipe off dust/fingerprints/etc

      No problem! Just put a thin coating of glass over it to protect it!

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  3. Can I get them in gloss finish ? by craznar · · Score: 3, Funny

    After all - existing screens aren't that shiny until they put TruBright(TM) or Ultrabright(TM) or AmazaView(TM) or BlindUView(TM) coating of crap on them.

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  4. No one will buy this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am typing this from a 13" glossy Macbook Pro, and I think there's a misunderstanding about why people buy glossy screens. The glossy screen is the perfect Apple screen because I can simultaneously see the two most important things in the world: the blog I'm reading, and myself. Always myself.

  5. Evolution of screens converges to a perfect mirror by Twinbee · · Score: 4, Funny

    We all know that the perfect monitor screen resembles (or should resemble) a highly polished mirror, and that the viewing of films, games, software or the web is a secondary effect that some people find occasionally useful.

    So with that in mind, how is this technology a step forwards again?

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  6. We've been visited by the future... by genghisjahn · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and they brought us transparent glass. What's next, non-floating bricks?

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  7. News? by pz · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't news, this is an advertisement.

    1. AR (anti-reflection) coatings have been available on photographic lenses for decades. Even the ultra tiny lenses in your iPhone/Blackberry/Android phone have AR coating. AR coatings are *always* nanometers thick, by their very nature.

    2. AR coatings have been available on eyeglass lenses for nearly as long. Most people these days get some sort of AR coating on their lenses.

    3. AR coatings have been available on framing glass to protect valuable paintings, photographs, and other items in picture frames for the same scale of time. Drop by your local framing / art supply store and check out what's usually called museum glass.

    4. AR coatings were used on nearly every CRT by the time sales started to plummet in favor of the LCD. I use a couple of them in my lab to this day.

    5. AR coatings are already available on some laptop screens (eg, by Sony and Samsung, no doubt among others).

    So, news about a new technology ("Solves Screen Reflection Problems")? No. Product announcement? Yes.

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    1. Re:News? by Jay+L · · Score: 4, Informative

      I have a painting with AR glass. It's a big improvement over regular glass, but it's way, way more reflective than the glass seen in the photo.

      Also note from the WP article you cited:

      It is possible to obtain reflectivities as low as 0.1% at a single wavelength. Coatings that give very low reflectivity over a broad band can also be made, although these are complex and relatively expensive.

      TFA claims broadband 0.5% reflectivity.

  8. Knowing basic high school chemistry would help by _0xd0ad · · Score: 3, Informative

    Coal is mostly carbon. Carbon weighs about 12 g/mol *.

    To burn, coal requires oxygen. Oxygen is found in the air. Oxygen has an atomic weight of about 16 g/mol and is found in the form of O2, which weighs twice as much, 32 g/mol.

    1 mol C + 1 mol O2 => 1 mol CO2 *

    CO2 weighs about 44 g/mol, or about 3.66 times the weight of carbon.

    How could burning 1 pound of coal result in 3 pounds of CO2? Well, apparently the coal was only about 82% pure carbon.

    * The mole, abbreviated "mol", is just a number of atoms or molecules. A very large number. It's a constant. As a matter of fact, it's exactly defined to be the number of atoms of C-12 in 12 grams of pure carbon-12. So that equation is perfectly balanced; there are equal numbers of molecules of C and O on both sides.