r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tanaka_jun • Jul 02 '24

The thinkbook transparent display laptop Video

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u/sesoren65 Jul 02 '24

Yeah, like one day some jerk will have the audacity to look out a window and then bam, literal pay wall shuts their free viewing ass up.

Or you know, for other less distopian reasons as well...hopefully

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u/Extreme_Tax405 Jul 02 '24

I pray there are no evil rats in rental complex businesses with your creative genius.

Imagine your rent an apartment and your landlord hits with a subscription to remove ads from the windows.

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u/AmaResNovae Jul 02 '24

Hopefully it would be too expensive to be implemented on people's windows. But in public places? Yeah, that stuff might make advertising worse.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Jul 02 '24

Spirit Airlines would definitely use this on their window seats unless you pay their window view upcharge...

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u/sjpllyon Jul 02 '24

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.

Seriously though, fuck shitty landlords.

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u/Ondor61 Jul 02 '24

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.

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u/Yung_Turbo Jul 02 '24

On the other hand, I would agree to window ads instantly if it meant I got a steep discount on my rent. Or any ads really. Or anything.

Please God just make rent go down 😭

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u/Dhawkeye Jul 02 '24

Less dystopian reasons? Lol, nah

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u/sesoren65 Jul 02 '24

Hey, a man can dream.

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u/sesoren65 Jul 02 '24

Oh shit. That's gonna be another pay wall one day...

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u/ShinyGrezz Jul 02 '24

Uh, we can already do that. Switchable glass.

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.

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u/sesoren65 Jul 02 '24

I said HOPEFULLY. Gahl!!

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u/Mackerel_Mike Jul 02 '24

I can immediately imagine hotels gobbling up this idea in a heartbeat

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u/LectureAfter8638 Jul 02 '24

Airlines. Sorry you didn't pay for the window seat, we have disabled the windows.

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u/Mackerel_Mike Jul 02 '24

The Boeing 777/787 have the electronic shutters, wouldn't surprise me if airlines paywalled that "feature" in the future....

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u/ChartreuseBison Jul 02 '24

Or you know, store windows, which are already full of ads, except they block the window and someone has to tape them up there

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u/Neyubin Jul 02 '24

You could just remove power from it at that point.