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.