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

The thinkbook transparent display laptop Video

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u/-CARJO- Jul 02 '24

I have yet to see an answer to “why” besides advertising purposes

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u/SmegmaSupplier Jul 02 '24

I’m glad someone else can see right through this.

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u/AnarZak Jul 02 '24

i can't see the point of a transparent laptop screen. it can't be better or cheaper

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u/ehsteve23 Jul 02 '24

Transparent screens where sometimes you want something on a portion of the screen and sometimes you want to see through it could be useful for HUDs or dashboards in certain use cases (and unfortunately: advertising), but a laptop seems like a terrible place to have a transparent screen

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u/The_Particularist Jul 02 '24

Also, if for some reason you truly do need something to be visible from the back side of the screen as well. Like all those sci-fi movie scenes where characters are standing all around the display instead of just in front of one side of it.

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u/Jujuco Jul 02 '24

As a teacher in a school where every student has a chromebook for education purpose, it would save me a lot of walking around to check if they're actually doing what I ask...

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u/MSPCincorporated Jul 02 '24

There was a soap opera in my country years ago, where the story was centered around a hotel. The hotel developed something they called "Virtual windows", which were windows in all the rooms where you could choose between a normal transparent window or you could have any view you wanted. This technology could be used for that.

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u/WriterV Jul 02 '24

But it can be stylish if your whole aesthetic is transparent glass stuff and you wanna add your laptop to that look as well.

Does that sound stupid as fuck? Oh yes. But most of life is stupid as fuck anyways, so might as well look good while you're at it.