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Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display
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."
The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?
Never change, Samsung.
GreatBunzinni has been posting anonymous accusations listing a whole bunch of Slashdot accounts as being part of a marketing campaign for Microsoft, without any evidence. GreatBunzinni has accidentally outed himself as this anonymous poster. Half the accounts he attacks don't even post pro-Microsoft rhetoric. The one thing they appear to have in common is that they have been critical of Google in the past. GreatBunzinni has been using multiple accounts to post these "shill" accusations, such as Galestar, NicknameOne, and flurp.
That's not the problem. The problem is that moderators gave him +5 Informative and are now modding down the accused, even for legitimate posts. Metamoderation is supposed to address this by filtering out the bad moderators, but clearly it's not working.
This "shill" crap that has been flying around lately has to stop. It's restricting a variety of viewpoints from participating on the site and creating an echo chamber.
So I guess perverts can just stare at the inside of windows now.
Um...the weather widget looks a little familiar, doesn't it?
Wouldn't be surprised if a Samsung Window would eventually be cheaper than a real window. Where I live that might be the case anyway.
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I'll finally be able to see the dust in the back corner of my cubicle!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I once peeled most of everything from my ThinkPad laptop display and it became transparent, still fully working. It was pretty cool and i think i still have it somewhere.
How much do they cost? $100 and i will order a dozen
Are you waiting a few more hours like reddit? Or what? Here's to hoping Slashdot has integrity so that I can continue to visit the site.
Masturbating to porn.
So people from the outside can't see what is on the screen, do they just see black or when you close the blinds are you still in full view of your neighbors?
Totally absurd !!!
Use it non stop for 10 minutes and you will see how the cramps in your arms will prevent you from going on !!!
Are we finally getting the spaceship windows and flying cars we were promised for the 21st century ? Or are my hopes in vain ?
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Man, those stray baseballs from the backyard are going to get much more expensive... Oh who am I kidding - kids don't play ball anymore.
Why isn't Slashdot participating? Didn't they care about an open internet at one point??
Slashdoters participate in the protest....
All post to any article today should be in protest of SOPA and PIPA.
I'm supposed to sit down, face out a window, then do what I normally do on the computer?
DO NOT WANT
These windows should look nice with this ceiling together: http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/1517243/germans-increase-office-efficiency-with-cloud-ceiling
Perpetual good weather outside! I feel great, and work better!
I had to use a link to Slashdot, because Wikipedia Links are, like, so out, today.
Now my only problem is that I have to replace my broken windows often. Rocks get hurled through them, flaming Native American arrows get shot through them, and even I manage to damage them when plinking with great-great-granddaddy's 'ole Gatling.
Fix that for me, Samsung.
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Challenge accepted. Weather app designs that don't look like Apple's:
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All of these look just fine and aren't inconvenient.
I heard you want an interactive display on your wall!
So we put a display in on your windows, so you can see it while it's still transparent.
Now when its sunny you can see your Windows with your windows,
and your neighbors can see you see your display when it's night, but they can't see what you see.
Yo Dawg we herd you liked Windows on your Computers, So we made your Windows into Computers, So now when you're on Windows you can actually see through the Windows!
"Yes, your neighbors will talk."
Fapping to pr0n in front of an open window, I bet they will.
Microsoft sues Samsung for Windows patent infringement
These would be great with those blinds inside a double glass pane. The outside window should be simple glass, blinds in between and the inside window a screen. That way you can close the blinds and still see the window.
Also: this reminds me of IronMan.
Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
Okay maybe it was more like 5 years ago but I they had an entire house built out of LCD windows to show off the technology. Too lazy to search for a source, just saying this isn't new.
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"And from the outside you just like you are tapping your window as none of the graphics can be seen."
And from the submission you just like you are accidentally your sentence as one of the words can't be seen...
The only window I have that small in my apartment is in the Bathroom
Your'e all thinking it, I just said it for you
Someone at Samsung reads MSPA.
If it has rounded corners apple has already invented the iWindow.
Make a tablet with this kind of screen in front of an e-ink display and you'd have the best of both worlds: crisp, clear text with long battery life, or full color.
They will indeed talk if you forget that the window is transparent from their side when you're "actively" watching porn on it!
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These devices look great in the movies but in daily life... well, there are a LOT of people who think tablets will take the place of computers, these thoughtful posts often being written on PC's has of course no bearing on their value...
The problem is that cost, convenience and usability, just don't measure up. Say I see an email I want to respond to on my window... do I then reply to it on the window? Try it, it isn't nearly as comfortable as it seems. Same with things like the weather, the amount of time really spend checking the weather is very very low and the TV which is already in the house is more then happy to report on it.
Your early morning routine just doesn't fit a dozen gadgets all begging for your attention. The people who have enough time to spend in the kitchen looking at their window can't afford it (the unemployed) and the people who can, have better things to do.
It as with the intelligent fridges that have been just around the corner for god knows how long now. People that do the shopping "mum's" are like the soviets, rather then spending a billion dollars creating a pen that works in zero gravity, they use a piece of paper and pencil and call it a shopping list. The early adopters who could afford the early models just don't do shopping that way.
These widgets all seem nice, as nice as when MS called it Active Desktop, which died. Then Vista something or other, which died and now in Windows 8 again, I am supposed to be looking at my desktop rather then at the program I have opened full screen obscuring it completely.
Even on a tech site such as this, I am fairly certain that 99% of you life in a house that is no more techie then that of your parents. For that matter, lights turned off by clapping, once the next tech, how many are still around?
Windows in houses are often the oddest sizes, go ahead, see if what happens if you break one of yours, almost certain a replacement has to be custom made to fit. They are often very large indeed, so that any tech window replacing them, is going to be highly expensive. Until they get within reach of the common geek software for them will be in short supply making them less usable and until companies start working together instead of fighting each other (wanna bet your Samsung Window conspires with your Philips dishwasher to kill off the iPhone?)
Once I specifically made sure I could watch shows like Beyond 2000. Back then I was young and hopeful. Now I am old and angry I just feel bitter that I still don't have my sex robot... eh flying car. I have come to realize that most of the World of the Future stuff just isn't practical.
I mean, a weather widget on a window? What is it going to tell me, what the weather looks like outside? I am not interested enough to pay for an expensive screen, the cost of installing it and for that matter getting up to check. I just look at the cat. sprawles on the kitchen floor (hot), on the window sill huddled up (okayish), buried with the wife in a pile of blankets on the bed (nice and brisk (ducks pillow thrown at him) sorry cold).
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Eventually you will want to login somewhere.
Onscreen keyboard ?
Transparent screen ?
Hello personal data!
You probably wouldn't be able to see clearly through the window anymore after using the touchscreen display.
The display looks like it's running the Enlightenment window manager. Samsung is a known, perhaps the biggest, sponsor of the Enlightenment project, which they probably use in some hardware already shipping now.
"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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Now they just need to resize this down, integrate it into a telephone and you have Tony Stark's see-thru smartphone from Iron Man 2! Cool ;)
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
Whatever wikipedophile.org is, it seems to have been blocked. I imagine that's because it, like Apple, was stealing ideas or something..
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like cleaning windows of smudge marks.
I think I'll use my kinect and display naked women over all passerby's.
... if, instead of just appearing to be a window from the outside, you could project scenes of your own choosing to the outside world. The possibilities for mischief tantalize.
I know that a big translucent touch sensitive screen floating in the room is visually stunning, but has anyone thought of the consequences of having to use one for any long period? Waving your arms around and having your arm elevated for longer than a few seconds is hard on the shoulders.
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Imagine if they could make one of these seamless and large enough to cover the entire space of a full wall window. I could see this being a nice alternative to a dry-erase board in a school, where the desks all face the big windows and the teacher can type things on a handheld keyboard then just drag them around the display. The kids would be looking out the windows all day, seeing natural sunlight instead of a board lit with florescent lighting.
I wonder how it works at sunrise and sunset, when the sun is setting and everything turns orange, I wonder how much that would affect the color?
If the sun were to line up with the window, could the lcd polarize the light enough to block out the sun to protect the eyes of the person using it? As in, how effective are those blinds? If extra polarization were required, how much would that affect the image on the screen?
Would a transparent photo-voltaic film be able to power the whole screen if it were built in?
If it truly is one-way, imagine having one of these in the shower, pull up an article or a video and maybe have some kind of head tracking so the item you're looking at will move with your head.
I've always wanted something like this. Eventually I can have a house with a huge open facing digital window system like this and project places other than my neighbors. Suddenly I can have a beach front home!
I didn't see anything about energy efficiency - or how well this "window" compares to modern windows with holding in heat. There are also other issues like trapped moisture (and the resulting mold), which would be far worse to see in this kind of window. Wouldn't think it would be too hard to lay it on top of your existing windows, to get the best of both worlds, but then you're still dealing with the cost of both (and good windows are not cheap).
My daughter is currently in an urban design class. She has severe dyslexia so I read the materials to her, which gives me some familiarity with all her classes. The architects featured in this class seem to be most concerned about the usefulness of the perimeter of buildings, wanting us to abandon flat featureless walls for the porches and doors and windows -- permeability, they called it -- that were popular before WWII. Although I disagree with some of their philosophies, (I am violently opposed to brutalism, for instance) I agree with this.
So a horror slideshow from their standpoint would be commercial and private buildings with utterly blank walls that end flatly against the property, isolating the residents inside and making the space outside useless except for traveling away from the hulking building. And sadly, there are many examples of that, both for commercial businesses and for private residences.
It occurs to me that technology like this would make that type of design even more likely. If you could put a "window" anywhere, showing any type of scene, what do you care what's actually outside? [1] I know, you can sit this on top of a real window, but I wonder how often that will be done in real life? In an age where all the up and coming adults have been trained since grade school to live with ear buds inserted and head lowered to a 4" display, what chance do us old fogeys who remember fresh air and open views, have, to convince them that houses should have access to the outdoors?
[1] Except, I suppose, from a security standpoint, although there's hardware and software solutions for that.
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Now we can finally see what the weather's like by looking at a window!
Really, of all the applications they could have chosen for the main picture, they pick a weather forecast?
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Then there is condensation and mildew.
Maybe if its on top of the real window it could work for some limited purpose.
"Look behind you, Mr. WEATHERman!"
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I've been using it all day with no issues, no black pages.
Maybe it knows I've already called my congresscritters? Jeepers!
(Or maybe it's because I don't run javascript by default)
People seem to be missing the fact that this is damn cool and instead are posting inane offtopic rants about Apple vs Samsung, the widget design (is it really relevant compared to the tech?) and even SOPA.
I think this would be really cool somewhere like the shower if it could be made waterproof. I do a lot of my thinking there, solving programming problems, etc. Having a screen that I could touch and draw on would be really useful.
Essentially this is getting into the realm of smart glass everywhere. It could be put on mirrors to let you 'try on' outfits before you wear them, it could be on oven/microwave doors to display cooking information (I'm a metrics geek) and the list goes on. You could also just have a pane of glass stuck onto a wall - a truly invisible. When you turn it off, it just looks like the wallpaper. Just because it's on a window doesn't mean it *has* to be on a window outside - the technology, to me, is a transparent display which is much more interesting.
PS - the whole point of a weather forecast is that it's a forecast. You look out of your kitchen window and the display tells you what it'll be like in 6 hours including the temperature. Weather widgets are no more pointless on a window than they are in every single smartphone that seems to tout them.
And yes, ambient light may be a issue, but it would still work where you just needed some differentiation between background and stuff on top. Remember that to see your walls they have to reflect light - you're just blocking it. Same goes for mirrors.
I don't think you would want one to replace your window, but one mounted just inside it would be awesome. Windows are often subject to extreme temperature differences, moisture, dirt, and stresses. You wouldn't want to have to call in a building contractor to replace it when it breaks. Not to mention, windows also need to have good heat and sound insulation, which are probably not going to be provided by a display.
Is this to be an empathy test? Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil, involuntary dilation of the iris?
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Would make watching porn with "blinds" open very interesting.
This is just the next generation of Transparent OLED's that I have already posted about.
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/2011/08/transparent-oled-screen.html
Here is my post from CES:
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/2012/01/ces-2012-transparent-samsung-smart.html
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Why would anyone want retarded shit like this? I mean, seriously? Who has windows this small? How much would it cost if it were the size of a real window? And even if it was remotely affordable, why? It will never be as good as a window at light transmission, and it will never be as good at showing images as a real display.
Great links. Thanks!
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So instead of burglars breaking your window to steal your gadgets, do they just steal your window?
you play scenes from horror movies on the outside. that would freak neighbors out
If it is better definately it i will work in many companies
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Had one for a while, but kept burning my legs on the radiator.
If a day after I install my new Samsung Window some kid hits a baseball through it.
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