Great! Now you and your best buddy dont have to sit next to eachother when watching porn and you can instead sit across from each other and make eye contact
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Uhm, cool I guess. Why should we use this? Does it have any advantage over classical displays?
Yes. The advantage is it's really cool.
You can get done damn near everything you need with super basic products, but is that how you roll?
Even if it does, it has a ton of disadvantages too.
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This would be cool expanded to fit window panes in your home. I know I've enjoyed putting on the youtube Yule-tide fireplace on my TV to make the home more cozy in the winter, it'd be even cooler to turn "winter" mode on in your windows, really complete the hygge feeling
Just stick with the fire for all the windows too. This is fine.
This is something I'd really want, but I couldn't justify spending money on it.
I am so not interested in transparent screen for consumer use. At least not in this shape.
A lot of people are complaining about it's use case for laptops, but I think a display like this on cars or glasses/goggles could be interesting.
Doesn't this already exist since half a century? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display No need for a transparent display at all.
HUDs on cars rely on a screen on the dash that reflects onto the windshield and into your eyeballs. They're good at night, but during the day they can be pretty hard to see unless the screen is absurdly bright. Maybe this wouldn't have that issue?
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Where are the privacy wonks when we need them?
It's definitely a concept, but I can't for the life of me envision the use case.
I can envision plenty of use cases, none of which are laptops.
I always loved looking at transparent screens in movies and shows. Everything on the screen is bright and colorful, and the camera is able to pan to a view where the background provides a flat color so everything is legible!
Can't see these working theat well in the real world. How would it do a dark mode? What about bright sunlight and a busy background? The example images already look like the background is going to be extremely distracting, and those are the ones they chose to show it off.
And in regards of text and graphs: everything is mirrored from behind. I am not sure what transparent screens may be used for.
That's kind of a cool secondary use though.
A one button screen flip to present to someone on the other side would be marginally useful.
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More like ready to show everyone what you’re looking at. I’m sure businesses will love having their confidential documents broadcast to the entire coffee shop.
In the article Lenovo says that if/when they go to production it will absolutely have the ability to enable/disable the transparency
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Not to mention it’ll work terribly in most light conditions.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A year after flexing its R&D muscles with a rollable laptop that expanded its screen with a simple button push, Lenovo is back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, with another somehow even more sci-fi concept device.
“I am not a good artist,” Lenovo’s executive director of ThinkPad portfolio and product, Tom Butler, admits to me in an interview, “but I can bring something behind and I can trace it.” In the room we’re sitting in, that means pulling a bunch of sunflowers behind the laptop screen, but Butler pitches the idea of an architect being able to sit on location and sketch a building without taking their eyes off the environment in front of them.
Although the 17.3-inch display in this concept is only 720p, AG Zheng, Lenovo’s executive director of SMB product and solutions, tells me that going with an OLED would have limited the company to a resolution as low as 480p.
When images of this device first started leaking, I assumed this was meant as just another sci-fi flourish, but it’s actually part of Lenovo’s pitch for artists.
But Butler says he has “very high confidence” that its technologies will make it into a real laptop in the next five years and hopes that revealing this proof of concept will start a public conversation about what it could be useful for, setting a target for Lenovo to work toward.
Halfway through my interview, I pulled my (decidedly nontransparent) MacBook’s screen forward to double-check my phone behind it, and Butler leaped on it immediately.
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