Splinter Cell Chaos Theory electric windows, are they real?

[Yossarian]

this is a pretty cool feature in one of the later levels of the game. an office building has walls made out of a special type of glass that can be toggled clear/opaque with a switch. you can even watch a video presentation about how they work in-game. I would assume that these are real, anyone have more info on them?

 

[Mo0o]

Shouldn't be that difficult, some kind of liquid between glass panels that responds to electric currents?

 

[Jzero]

I believe they are basically LCDs. I saw one on display at the Franklin Institute a couple years ago and I'm surprised they haven't become more prevalent in real life...

 

[EvilYoda]

Mmmm, yes they're real, but I don't have any info off the top of my head. Very popular for "hip" joints to use in their bathroom doors (entrance, not stalls)

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Mmmm, yes they're real, but I don't have any info off the top of my head. Very popular for "hip" joints to use in their bathroom doors (entrance, not stalls)

Pray to god there isn't a wiring problem

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

yes, they are real LCDs are based on the same kind of principle. You have a backlight and you use electric currents to change the optical properties of a filter in front of it to produce colours. Obviously LCDs have to be much more sophisticated than just light/dark but as far as I know it's just a light polarization trick

 

[Ryan]

The glass roof of the Maybach does this

 

[ravana]

yeah, discovery showed them being used as stall doors in some club, it was on one of those top 10 shows like 2 years ago.

 

[Yossarian]

cool. in the game your gun has an electrical discharge attachment so you can trigger the walls remotely, it's fun to play around with.

 

[dquan97]

ya, I believe these are real...

 

[PanzerIV]

I saw them on television and in real life at Epcot a few weeks ago.

 

[Slick5150]

Yeah, I was at a club once (not sure if the same one as mentioned a couple posts up) where the stall doors are see through until you go in and lock the door. It freaks people out at first

 

[EvilYoda]

The Ferrari Superamerica has it in it's glass roof too. And Raynor was right, except that there's no need for a backlight in these...the crystals are adjusted by the electrical impulses, which rotate them to a certain angle, thus letting more/less light through.

 

[James3shin]

Like someone said before, the Maybach roof has this glass tech.

 

[cerebusPu]

sounds like a giant single pixel LCD!

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
sounds like a giant single pixel LCD!

just hope that sony doesn't make it. your one pixel will most likely be dead.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: James3shin
Like someone said before, the Maybach roof has this glass tech.

game on the roof of your merc

 

[Viper GTS]

It's real, & it's nothing new.

Welding hoods have been using it for years.

Viper GTS

 

[Howard]

Yes.

Howstuffworks.com covered "Smart Windows".

 

[DingDingDao]

Originally posted by: Jzero
I believe they are basically LCDs. I saw one on display at the Franklin Institute a couple years ago and I'm surprised they haven't become more prevalent in real life...

They're really expensive. Who wants to spend 10 grand on a single window when you could do the whole house and window treatments for that much?

 

[Cuda1447]

Dunno, but Im on the bank level of that game (not much time to play) and I LOOOOOOVE IT. The game is fricken amazing!

 

[Supertastic Fool]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: Jzero
I believe they are basically LCDs. I saw one on display at the Franklin Institute a couple years ago and I'm surprised they haven't become more prevalent in real life...

They're really expensive. Who wants to spend 10 grand on a single window when you could do the whole house and window treatments for that much?

if i had the cash i would...

 

[AdamSnow]

Very real...

Do a google search for 3M Privacy Glass.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: Jzero
I believe they are basically LCDs. I saw one on display at the Franklin Institute a couple years ago and I'm surprised they haven't become more prevalent in real life...

They're really expensive. Who wants to spend 10 grand on a single window when you could do the whole house and window treatments for that much?

But that's the surprising part. LCD technology has gotten a lot cheaper, but it seems like this particular application has never really taken off enough to drive the price down.

 

[richardycc]

yeah 3M have this technology for a long time, I think their patents expired already, so tells you how old this thing is. they had to discontinue it, because not enough demand out there.