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Samsung Introduces Completely Solar-Powered, Transparent TV
- Vipsy 16y agoSeeing how they marketed LED TV, it might be possible they put a camera at the back of it, and mixed the images. Here is the transparent TV :)
- neolefty 16y agoLooks like it's not actively backlit? Way cooler than it has any right to be, at least in the daytime. Brightness is automatically directly proportional to the light coming from behind! Wonder what they have planned for night.
- jarin 16y agoMaybe you could have thin LED strips on the sides to side-light it?
- collint 16y agoYup. This is what I want at my desk. Now I just need to find a great window with a view :)
- netmau5 16y agoI love the future. Hopefully this won't go the way of the OLED and be way too expensive for practical use. I know it's only a matter of time, but I want this now! There are so many interest problems that a technology like this one could be applied in solving.
- high5ths 16y agoObviously incredibly cool, but at the same time, how often do you want to see what is behind your monitor? Other than storefront windows and cars I would think it would be distracting to have everything be transparent. But it is very, very cool.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoIf its cheaper, that would drive adoption lots of places that don't have tv. E.g. Africa, dorm rooms, shower stalls...
- oo 16y agoEyeglasses.
- Qz 16y agoThe only thing behind my monitors is blank white walls, so it's no problem for me.
- Groxx 16y agoAnyone know if LG's has solar-poweredness? This mentions nothing along those lines: http://justinireland.com/lg-transparent-lcd/ http://justinireland.com/lg-transparent-lcd/ via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266954 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266954
- joshontheweb 16y agoYou could have such a sweet GPS interface in your car with this in the windshield.
- ww520 16y agoThat looks great if they can make it into windows panes - the outside of the glass is the solar panel and the inside can play video. Make it transparent on whim. Make it opaque to block out the sun.
- BoppreH 16y agoMake funny shadows. Show weather forecast. Fill it with black and put a moon there during the day.
- light3 16y agoSome pictures/video here: http://inventorspot.com/articles/samsungs_latest_transparent_tv_now_solar_power http://inventorspot.com/articles/samsungs_latest_transparent...
- elai 16y agoClever, take a lcd panel, remove the backlighting and put semi-transparent solar panels one or both sides.
- schultzi 16y agoA camera in the back and some video tools could make for some really awesome desktops. Seeing a virtual Godzilla stomp around the city would be so cool. Bonzi Buddy 2020.
- bnegreve 16y agoWhy would you see behind your TV while watching a movie ?
- HaloZero 16y agoBefore a bunch of people comment on how useless this is or why would you want that, think about the next time you are walking through a mall. See how many TVs and LCDs you see. Now imagine all those powered by the ambient light in the mall instead of conventional sources. That's why this is going to be cool and useful, not for your living room.
- gjm11 16y agoI'm not sure which of two things you mean [EDIT: perhaps both], but neither of them seems to make sense. 1. "All those LCDs and TVs won't need to be backlit; they'll just use whatever light there was behind them." By definition, if you do that then they can't be brighter than whatever was behind them; and unless what's behind them is nice and uniform, you won't be able to see them clearly. This just isn't going to look good enough for the purposes most of those displays are there for. 2. "We'll power the LCDs and TVs photoelectrically, using the ambient light." Then you'll need a large area of photovoltaic cells to power them, somewhere that was well-illuminated but black. You could save more electricity by painting that area white instead and reducing the lighting slightly.
- sudonim 16y agoGreat example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should". It's an interesting technology, but besides making CNNs coverage of elections more X-treme, who is going to use this?
- rbanffy 16y agoI, for one, would superimpose some blue skies and nice fluffy clouds upon rainy afternoons... And big, silvery dirigibles. Always liked those. Notice the background is very clean - most real windows will show you buildings and trees. If, however, that could be combined with "privacy glass", specially if you could make the glass less transparent on a pixel-by-pixel way, then I would consider changing all my windows.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoA bar can now pave every square inch of surface with tvs - the ceiling, the tables, the floor. Another great example of what Can be done.
- Florin_Andrei 16y agoIt's just a stunt at this point, yes, but it's very pretty.
- cskau 16y agoHow long before some guy is caught watching porn on the window.. ? Seriously though, there really isn't much privacy if all of your screen watching is clearly visible to anyone walking by on the street.
- chadgeidel 16y agoI'd love this. I would put them in my kitchen (white walls, well lit) and run the power cable out to my deck. Handy.
- gyom 16y agoIt seems to me like most people commenting here see this as transparent TV instead of seeing it as futuristic window that displays stuff ! I'd like to have this kind of stuff on certain windows, and not as a replacement for a TV, that big piece of furniture that sits in a living room. It's a bit like "surfaces" by Microsoft. It's not really about turning computers into tables, but it's about turning tables into amazing futuristic furniture (that are extra useful).
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoAnother story on it, since this one isn't working for me: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/samsung-unveils-see-through-solar-powered-tv.php http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/samsung-unveils-see-...