Jan 8 2010See-through Laptop Screen Is See-through

Do Want.

Another thing, wasnt this laptop from the Drake and Josh christmas special?

I can see this tech used in many useful applications, such as a screen built into a windshield to display the Tachometer, speedometer, ect….. Also for use in high tech air craft. But as far as my home computer, I am fine with the LCD I already have.

now people can watch you looking at porn at mcdonalds...even you thou sit with your back to the corner.

super badass... but absolutely pointless for a laptop. maybe a good idea for pilots n whatnot tho

i totaly would want that!

I have to agree with #3. It could have some sort of software that enables the screen to actually serve a purpose and do something. If not pretty pointless.

Just think, all this time i stared at my cpu screen i could also be stairing at my wall....

@naas
You disappoint me.

I think it would be too distracting to try and work on the thing and see all the crap behind your monitor.

@3... pontiac used to have a HUD display in some Bonnevilles and Grand Prix about 15 years ago. Like some really old school arcade game it just reflected a screen built into the dashboard. It showed MPH mainly.

So now people on the other side of your lap top can see what your lookin at.... O.o

So this laptop is really just for overprotective parents to give to there kids?

This would be great if i was a hitman i could see EVERYTHING thats going on!

It's cool and all, but whats exactly the point?

I love this thing! LOL @ the penis magnification comment.

1. Am I the only one who thinks this would make a cool-ass tablet?

2. I got 5 bucks that sez this is what apple's been hiding...

3. And with the press of a (virtual) button, the screen goes opaque and looks like a normal screen, for doing normal work. Or use transparent screen mode as tracing paper for your drawing/painting program of choice..

4. the ultimate AR viewer: just like like the handheld, only bigger...
look at a printed map and see 3D buildings on the "Mac Slate" screen!

...boi-yoing-yoing...

sweet, now i can drive and work at the same time... FAIL

As far as a laptop this would be pointless, distracting and pretty damn annoying. If used in a useful manner I'd say it has alot of potential, very battlestar galactica!!

That's pretty cool, minus the fact that you have a constant glare effect.

It would be great for cars to display maps and vehicle info so you can see and drive. Military aircraft have used this tech for the past 30+ years. Bout time we started to get it out in the civilian world.

It's awesome. You can watch pr0n while your girl gives you head and you can watch both at the same time!

Where do I sign up???????!

I think it's cool and all but if i was watching a movie or something on it i don't want to be able to see stuff behind my monitor also i wouldn't want light shining thru my monitor that would just piss me off.

dude its just like in cowboy bebop O_o I want it

Well played with the magnifying glass comment GW. It actually got a good chuckle out of me.

Im sorry but if im jacking the cafes internet to look at porn, i dont want everybody else to be able to see what im looking at. loljk, but no i wouldnt use this. If it was more transparent it would be nice for use in a windshield. digital compas and on screen directions to where you should turn next.

its as stupid as the mirrored screen protectors for phones. Outside... you can't see ANYTHING!!!!!

Oh, I love how creative the title is.... See Through Laptop that's See Through.

@1 & 2 I don't know what the Drake & Josh or their christmas special is, but you're right about the do want part of a see through laptop screen. Pretty damn cool
@9 what the hell for? That wasn't me but WTFs wrong with what that naas said?

I watched the video, and I could swear the lady asks, " Are you going to buy this? " And the guy says, "no." Funny that the screen looks like some naked lady getting doused with blue paint at one point. This may have some gimmicky apps. but really is that practical or even wanted? Remember, how when manufactures felt the public was getting bored with their products would always introduce see through versions, as if they were so mechanically beautifully you'd want to see the inner workings of a joystick, phone, etc... SHRUGS~~~

I want sunglasses made of see-thru-ee OLED displays. Like L'Gaga.

I also want an OLED display sewn into my torso. Like L'Lala, L'Po, and L'Tinky Winky.

You wanna get high?

@naas
Drake and Josh?
Really?
I'd understand if he was talking about the old shit, but now a days?
Oh Lord.
Josh was supposed to be fat!

Now everyone can watch you, watch porn.

http://www.ihatestacy.com/index.php?id=23d8577712b6f40d4a06e3f7c69e480d

@31 yup, no idea... if it means watching tv I don't do much of that. If it weren't for fucking geekologie I wouldn't have any idea wtf twilight was either, but sadly I do

pretty cool, but useless, i dont know if i want the whole room readming my FB or whatever, even if it is backwards.

Think of the porn possibilities!

Looks nifty. Too bad this gadget is inefficient.
Unless to the person on the opposite end of the screen, the computer user cannot be seen.
It'd be great for spying. Food for thought.

I won't be impressed until until there are awesome Robots and traffic out in space like the Jetson!...

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Prepare for :Ironman 2: Electric Boogaloo!"...

I don't think a laptop screen is the best use, but I appreciate the tech. This would be the tech behind the conceptual see-through phone posted way back when.

THAT'S THE MOST BALLINEST SH!T EVAAAAAAAAA!!!!

alright, not really...

This isn't completely useless, use your heads a bit. It would be fantastic for artists to do digital tracings of their surroundings, and you could easily put a plate on the back when you don't need the transparentness.

It's just mostly useless.

@42 hey look at me im 42 yeah you youre looking sexy hi sexy

oh, and you lost the game

Thats so fucking annoying. Can you switch it to not see through? I mean it could be useful... maybe... doubt it.

Lately, nearly everything I see on stumble upon ends up on here two days later. I must be stumbling into the future!!

i don't see the point. it'd be annoying and everyone could see what you're looking at.

@30 YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is lame, otherwise it's awesome if you want everbody to notice you're watching porn in public on your laptop. FTW

@ Geekologie Writer

I hate you :D

I agree with the majority of people who have already commented. I wouldn't want a laptop with a screen like that, but I do see ways it could be used.

Add touch pad to the back or enhanced reality and you will get a awesome pornstation!

Wow... The most repeated thing in the comments is watching porn in public. Do that many people really watch porn in public location?

This thing is the future. Sure it's kind of stupid for a laptop application but the posibilities for this are endless.

this idea was out in 2005...

link to some stranger's blog
http://blog.xuite.net/kk8888/chun/3404949

@54 yes

I don't see much point in a laptop version of this, but the screen technology could do a lot of cool things in a smaller format. A previous commenter mentioned navigation software. Pair it with GPS and a camera and it could overlay your surroundings, identifying points of interest, etc. for sightseeing. Or with facial recognition, you could have a pair of sunglasses that gives you Terminator-style updates of your surroundings, tells you the names of everyone at a party, or other relevant info. Not completely pointless.

what a terrible idea. this better not catch wind, or i wont be able to watch porn on the subway anymore.

@20 My thoughts exactly. Just watch your dick getting sucked of even watch it disappear into her entirely. Add some kind of usb electrical stimuli and you've eliminated the need for women completely! :D

@54: no sh-t, I mean can't these fiends wait to get home, or is their need to watch porn so urgent that they just can't wait? Or maybe it's just more comfortable for them to do it in public, for some perverted reason...

Anyway, I agree with the 2ND-most repeated comment, that the technology would be great in other applications (ie: automotive) but not so useful in a laptop.
The most interesting aspect about this device is that they're able to apply luminescence to the images on-screen, without a backlight, while still maintaining transparency.

um...this is easily replicated with a web cam behind the laptop. new technology? no.

great now u can scratch both sides

Wunderbar!

hey hey,what is this.....why hasn't there been a post today,jan 9? can someone do their job around here.....?

WHAT THE HECK? NO POST FOR JAN 9TH? YOU MAKE ME SAD GW. :[

@64 : inorite!

@3: Im pretty sure this tech Is already used in helicopters and fighterjets, and other various applications, even a merc had a dashboard on the windshield. Its not exactly new tech, but it hasn't been used for a laptop.

I still reckon having one for a laptop pretty useless, but i still wouldn't mind.

WHERE ARE YOU MIGHTY GW !! =(

If this was taken one step further it could be useful,
i.e. add a selective opacity layer which is controlled through an alpha channel.

@66

None of the helicopters in the US inventory use any kind of projection or LCD window on their aircraft. worked on them for the past 11 years and if they had that feature I guess I've been stuffing the wrong glass and Plexiglas onto those damn bird's windscreens.

Though, the OH-58 pilots used to draw a "+" on their windscreens with wax pencils to help with firing the hard-mounted 50 cals and rocket tubes, I was airframe not armament so I'm not certain why they would do that, but when we replace the windscreens they just redraw that crap on them again. Do wax pencils count as a see through LCD with really bad refresh rates? I mean really bad.

@70
i suppose they do count. But its only cristened with wax pencil porno. Anyone onto that in the army.

And i thought the helmets were callaborated with the heli's machine gun to shoot where the pilot was looking? im sure those helmets have OLED screens.

The AH-64 has a tracking system that shoots where the pilot looks, but it's not an OLED. Also have to keep in mind that while the military systems are far more advanced than any other countries, they are not up to date. Sure the systems where awesome badass when the idea was conceived, but by the time it shuffles through everything required to get it into the inventory and in use, it's 10 years later, lol! The avionics junk in the apache is straight 80's tech with a few systems updated to late 90's tech! That's just how that shit works. I'm certain a tiny core I7 CPU has a higher transistor count then any aircraft in service.

Today is another national binary day...... 01.10.10

This means  in text, 1a in hex, Gg== in base64 & 26 in dec/char

recognize

how bout the one potential problem that hasn't been brought up yet??

I NO CAN HAS MAH PRON IN PUBLIK!! OH NOES!!1ONEWTFBBQPIZZA!!

girlfriends that put out.. get one?

anyways, yes.. i'd love to have a replacement windshield in my car with this. need to find a destination? boom.. on screen directions. bored waiting for something? boom.. movie time. traffic getting ridiculous? boom.. crosshairs for the hood mounted 50cal!!

technology FTMFW!

@73: interesting, but srsly Base64?
I prefer Base8411

yes i am teh mad 1337 gaii.
or is that pronounced 'gay'. :/

Has any one noticed that it has been 2 days with this post. I think SW killed GW...

UPPPPPPPPDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATEEEE, vicious dreams of passion.
Going throughhhh my minnnnnnd. All the time, I think of you. XD

Just a few words:

See through laptop = annoying

I am a sorrry to say but the geekologie writer was killed in a drive by shooting yesterday, the police believe it to be gang related..

RIP GEEKOLOGIE WRITER...xxxxxx

RIP GW

Or alternatively: I hope you're having a nice weekend!

Or both.

Damn this sucks
Rest in peace GW, you will be missed

Post something.

they deffinately could have like a case to put on the back of the screen that is not transparent, therefore eliminating anyone watching your porn. id much rather have a phone like this though. other than a laptop

F0ck no, please dont say GW is dead!!!

Aw cmon man f0ck no, i love you GW dont go please!!!

Yay, now I can be distracted by the real world while I play Dragon Age. Which is glitchy, but awesome.

This principal is useful in eyeglass form, like a sort of heads up display type thing, but despite how impressive this tech is, it's still pointless in this application.

Aw, crap, now I have to literally scour for cool stuff rather than coming here.

GW saw Avatar Fri nite and now he's too depressed to post. Boo hoo, buck up little blue buddy, it's not real!

Srsly, either he's taking a few days off (well deserved) or he's got the flu. Or he was kidnapped by robots with laser eyes.

Shhhhhhhhhhh, but the GW got arrested for enticing an underage prehistoric creature back to his apartment and brutily violating it.
He could face 8 years prison time...
Or one weekend if he's good.

I'm just waiting for the most awesome return. Like, T-Rex with wings and a roar that shoots out a laser vs a dragon vs Darth Sion. IRL.

A three-way bloodbath of fire, lasers and lightning.

I'm LITERALLY eating breakfast without getting the scoop on cool stuff. What's the point in that! This is awful.

don't the three of them (GW, TS, IWS) usually all take the weekend off? i know i rarely see posts on the weekends..

except on those occasions where tila tequila rapes a t-rex, gives it the herp, and then tries to sell the movie rights..

GW in church I need gadget news on Sundays!

Can you imagine this? You and your friends can watch porn together, except now you don't have to sit awkwardly side by side!

they could use this at school to watch what kids are doing

@85 he's not dead, just still unconscious from starting the weekend too early

Lightweights.....

Where are you GW? No PEW PEW's?

One-hundred first!

I would love to have this as a GPS display in my car... but could it be bright enough?

Jeez this is as bad as the Twilight board game last summer....GW was gone and everyone eventually wanted GW to die....but i dont wish that but what i do want is SOME NEW POSTS!!!!!!!!!!

@93....effin...genius...

is there no way to block spam comments like 99 and 78? seems like it shouldn't be allowed

@104 - There should be, but then everyone would go nuts and mark everything as spam. :(

Hopefully GW will remove promotional comments.. if he's still alive, that is. I've been refreshing Geekologie so much in the hopes of an update, it's starting to become alarming. Shows just how strong GW's hold is over us. And by us, I mean me.
I once had a dream about GW and a dinosaur chasing gnomes. You know that picture of him on a rex? Throw in some scared Brazillians and shonky little sidwalkers and you get a pretty good idea. Perhaps I should avoid this site for a while, haha.

bad

I think this is some kind of spy laptop, not sure though.

HOLY SHIT, WTF HAPPENED TO WIKIPEDIA!.?

AM I LATE or did this just happen?

perhaps GW is editting his wiki page

case in point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode

all the other pages are usual. this one stands out?

Can someone please check on GW? I miss him. :(

Don't we all.

i bet the fact that you can see directly through the screen would detract from the actual picture quality seeing as it would be semi transparent.

Must see this dino riding pic...

Must see this dino riding pic...

Interesting concept I would like to see all the ridiculous people that waste their time at Starbucks with one of these. Since they need the attention to have to write in public with their 7 dollar cofee....lol... sad how some need vindication at least....Honestly they should just make ti a requirement it would be simply hilarious to see how many people would stop going to coffee shops.

RIP GW.

GW! Are you slacking off work?? This had better not be an illness or something coz i need my daily fix.... come back :'(

what's going on! This has been here for 3 days! Gimme new!

i think somebody forgot the password to their GW lol

We need a forum for a post GW despression

Hey GW, check this out: http://www.truecompanion.com/about.html

Damn those robots...

GW where the fuck are you? I've been going into denial all weekend.

that must suck if ur lookn at pron lol

but srly GW we miss you (mainly me :( ) i hope is k i miss my daily fill of flying dinosaurs who take off robots head as they shoot lazer from there mouth pew pew :(

But who will lead the robot resistance now?

GW, i will be your regent until your return!

Now everybody click my name for your daily filling of 'WTF?'

AAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!! ive been steadily following this site for years since i was like 13. Where r u GW!!!!! :( :( :(

Where are you!??! I'm having withdrawals GW. I need you!!!!!

/!\ RIP GW /!\
So long and thanks for all teh awesumz

GW?! GW?!!
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?????????????!!!!!!!!

SNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKEEE!!!!11

I WANTZ ME SOME GRAVY!

GW where are you????

Now if the pilots of NW 188 had this laptop they would have been able to see their instruments through this display and not miss their airport by 100 miles.

WHERE ARE YOU GW ??

Ickorus betrayed us and now hes selling farms to robots. Theyre filling our cows with oil !!

WE NEED YOU!!

@130

Blast, foiled again!

thanks for nice

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