Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display

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Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @07:11PM from the and-you-thought-they-were-expensive-to-break-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you want a large, interactive display on your wall, typically you have to make space for it by moving any pictures out of the way, and finding room next to any shelves or lighting you have installed. Samsung's idea is to remove that problem by creating a transparent display that replaces an actual window, or at least sit over the top of one. The display uses ambient light during the day and then can switch over to a more traditional black background as a night time mode. If you want to shut the daylight out it has virtual blinds you can draw to help darken a room. And from the outside you just like you are tapping your window as none of the graphics can be seen. Yes, your neighbors will talk."

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Re:O RLY by gmhowell · 2012-01-17 19:32 · Score: 4, Funny

yes..there is a typo in the statement from the article..and I just copied and pasted it directly....did not want to change what the site said....
That's what 'sic' is for. I'd link to the page at wikipedia, but, you know...

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Re:Wouldn't be surprised by Khyber · 2012-01-17 19:39 · Score: 3, Funny

So, South Korea?

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Re:Finally ? by vikingpower · 2012-01-17 21:06 · Score: 1, Funny

Thanks but no, thanks. Sport is for the proletariat.

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Re:Finally ? by kikito · 2012-01-17 21:26 · Score: 4, Funny

"Sport is for the proletariat"
That one would look great on a Sports t-shirt.
Does it have rounded corners? by pjabardo · 2012-01-17 22:07 · Score: 3, Funny

If it has rounded corners apple has already invented the iWindow.
Re:What language is this? by Chuck+Chunder · 2012-01-18 01:59 · Score: 3, Funny

"And from the outside you just like you are tapping your window as none of the graphics can be seen. "

I have no idea what the heck this says.
Oh come on, it's completely transparent!

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Re:Weather app is a rip-off of OS X weather widget by RicktheBrick · 2012-01-18 03:01 · Score: 3, Funny

Wow! Instead of looking out the window to see what the weather is like we can now look at the icon on the window to see what the weather is like. I think that soon we will replace windows with video monitors and cameras anyway. It would result in more security and less energy use. I can just see people with ocean views living far away from the oceans. All we need is a monitor that will last a hundred years or so.