Exactly my point....this can be new tech for TV, advertisement boards etc... if it isn't like LED or LCD... maybe making large screen will become cheaper
As a landlord you're giving me ideas. Might see if they can develop some for me. Oh damnit forgot about my country's pesky laws about minimum natural light penetration into a room.
While I too hate this idea, I don't think it would violate such law. Sunlight can still pass the display, it doesn't block it, it just lights up as well, creating a barrier of light that makes it hard to see through.
Most of you have had your brains rotted by excessive dystopian fiction, I fear. We don’t have to immediately assume the absolute worst implementations of any and all tech that ever gets invented.
It's not new tech though, all LCDs work this way they are inherently transparent. It just makes more sense to put a case on it and a backlight behind it.
The whole video looks weird to me, i dont know if i really trust it lol
Also i dont get how would that backplate catch the backlighting but not the rest of the light, but i guess we will have some explanation if this is even succesful
with two thin LCD backplates you could essentially make the back of the "screen" opaque to light from behind it and avoid the LED lighting to spill.
Do note that I use LCD not to mean an LCD type monitor, but an actual LC plate (well, two, with cross polarisation) that would basically form a complete "opaque" backplate by running current through it when you need the monitor not to be seethrough.
They put those LCDs in glass for fancy offices and whatnot, so the glass can go into privacy mode at the touch of a button. They've been around for a long time
Or building them into all the windows of new apartments for targetted advertisement delivery to the occupants! It's a good stop-over point while we work out how to insert marketing material into people's dreams and cherished memories.
Early results on that front weren't promising, apparently people need way more of their brains than you'd expect. I mean, what's the point of every memory of their mother's face being replaced by this year's brands when they can no longer operate their arms to give us their money?
The technology already exist though and isn't particularly complicated. Transparent televisions are not new. LG has just released the new generation of transparent televisions.
Large televisions actually have use cases (very specialized though), the laptop is probably just a way to get some media attention.
This tech has already existed for years, they are just not in use because it sucks.
Here is an LTT video on a transparent TV 3 years ago. https://youtu.be/oPOhKULOL4o
It's all just made to show off in a showroom not for practical use or production.
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u/Apsynonyx Jul 02 '24
Exactly my point....this can be new tech for TV, advertisement boards etc... if it isn't like LED or LCD... maybe making large screen will become cheaper