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Commercial "LCD" glass
- 04-08-2007

Re: Commercial "LCD" glass

If you are in Melbourne and want to see it in action ask for a tour of
Telstra's Global Operations Centre in Clayton. The viewing room has this
facility for the glassed area facing the main operations floor space.
Impressive, and it operates very quickly from clear to fully opaque and vice
versa. Nothing new. The switchable windows have been in use at the GOC
since it was put into operation in the 1990s.
Cheers,
Alan

Re: Commercial "LCD" glass

I think it is interesting that the first mooted use for the technology of
transparent/opaque glass using liquid crystal was as a glass wall,
transparent during the day, opaque at night. Nothing came of it. I read of
it in Popular Science, or Popular Mechanics, in the late nineteen forties.
Loved those magazines!


Re: Commercial "LCD" glass
rowan194 wrote:

I think I read somewhere that they used this technology for some swish
toilets somewhere where you could see the architects 'clean' creation
when the cubicle was unoccupied and it went opaque when occupied.
Apparently it used a motion sensor to detect the occupied state but
had a minor short-coming in the design when people fell asleep
inside...

Re: Commercial "LCD" glass

I thought that was the idea, to stop people staying inside too long? It
sounds a warning buzzer before going clear.
Doesn't the Blue Mt's skyway car also use an LCD glass floor? Apparently so
you can look down when over the gorge, but men underneath can't look up
women's dresses when the car approaches the platform :-)
MrT.
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