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See-through LCD screens to be cool, useless
I'm not sure how practical this is, but it's a neat invention nonetheless. A company called Active, Inc. has developed LCDs that turn opaque at the flip of the switch. That means you could stop using your monitor to watch movies or surf the web and turn it into a window, perhaps installed in your home somehow.
While it would be pretty cool to have a window that was also a screen, the lack of a backlight would make the screens usefulness questionable at best. Even lighting is pretty much a necessity in LCD screens, but hey, any advancement is a good advancement I suppose.
NewLaunches, via Oh Gizmo
By MediumSteve at 4:08 AM ON 07/05/07
Sounds to me like there's finally a teleprompter for the masses.
By jam79 at 8:02 AM ON 07/06/07
If you combine that with the glass that goes from white opaque to crystal clear with voltage, you would have an effective way,( by lighting the sides of the electric glass) to give you a back light for lcd mode. Then clear the screen and the backlight glass and presto, a window.
By sanzoneguy at 12:09 AM ON 07/08/07
On the contrary, I can see many uses for transparent screen. Adding a true Heads Up display to car windshields or Motorcycle helmets not only displaying speed and engine status, but adding advanced Night vision and fog vision.
Also arrays of them could be set up to create psuedo holograms. and imersive 3D environments.
By sanzoneguy at 12:09 AM ON 07/08/07
On the contrary, I can see many uses for transparent screen. Adding a true Heads Up display to car windshields or Motorcycle helmets not only displaying speed and engine status, but adding advanced Night vision and fog vision.
Also arrays of them could be set up to create psuedo holograms. and imersive 3D environments.
By CruzerC57D at 4:27 PM ON 07/12/07
Certainly *not* useless. The heads-up display is one good idea. How about using this technology in a medical setting? The screen could be placed between a patient and physician or dentist, and used to display diagnostic imaging right over the part of the patient which was being examined!
By PCHistorian at 9:00 PM ON 07/12/07
Besides the heads up display on cars, motorcycles, jets, etc... how about a picture window in my house, that I can switch to the view of someone's web camera on the top of the rocky mountains, with a view of deer and buffalo, or an ocean scene, right out my "front" window. Or I can switch it over to a HUGE screen TV, etc... Video games on a huge screen, interactive overlays with a camera of mine, underneath the window outside and facing in the direction I'm facing, which interfaces with a computer system, to show me things I'd normally miss out my front window. Security, a virtual target practice with things out the window. Multi-media of window to presentation view to record. (I can overlay text onto the window which shows what an outside camera is actually viewing, behind the safety of glass, for say testing stuff in front of safety glass. For all those other people with out imaginations, maybe we should just move back into caves, eh?
Besides, we were doing this stuff for our movie, "InZer0:Fragile Wings," in our filming props, two months ago. We knew it would be here soon.
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By saintrobert at 7:53 PM ON 07/17/07
Heads up display on a helmet, house window or used in a library as a tour guide (Time Machine, new version).
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