More High Tech Windows (The Glass Kind)

from the glass-ain't-just-glass-any-more dept

It's been about a year since we last mentioned smart glass-enabled windows, that can turn opaque at the flip of the switch. At that time, the glass was part of a prototype home. However, it looks like you can now buy your own smart glass if you don't mind shelling out $80 to $160 per square foot. For the rest of us, we'll stick with this funky "old school" technology we call "window blinds."
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    dorpus, 4 Feb 2005 @ 12:02pm

    You mean

    If you live in an apartment, you want those leaky blinds that shine the street lights into your bedroom? Ah, who needs technology to make life better, when you can tape tinfoil to the window?

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    brent, 4 Feb 2005 @ 12:13pm

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    the glass that turns opaque isnt that new the guys at channel4 and endermol who make big brother here in the uk installed it in the big brother house during season 5 as part of the toilet room that faced the garden

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    Anonymous Coward, 4 Feb 2005 @ 1:06pm

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    The Chicago Tribune link is registration required.

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    Anonymous Coward, 5 Feb 2005 @ 12:52am

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    This hardly qualifies as bleeding edge, as it appeared in magazines in the 80’s… To say nothing of trendy bathrooms in the EARLY 90s.

    But it IS cool, and nice to know that the price is still dropping.





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