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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"I love masturbating to porn with my bro"
Uhm, cool I guess. Why should we use this? Does it have any advantage over classical displays?
Some very novel jobs where you need to be at a computer but also like to see the person in front of you? For the sake of transparency so the client can follow a bit?
I am just guessing. Transparent screens as tech are very promising for AR, imagine a technicians tablet with this? But a laptop… more a novelty.
One person would be looking at a reversed image though, so that's not going to fly.
Why not simply have a double sided monitor?
Even if it does, it has a ton of disadvantages too.
So you can proudly watch porn in public and make not just people behind you uncomfortable, but also people in front of you!
Put a paper drawing behind the transparent screen and draw on the screen to digitize it.
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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.
Not to mention it’ll work terribly in most light conditions.
In the article Lenovo says that if/when they go to production it will absolutely have the ability to enable/disable the transparency
But then what's even the point?
"We need to find a way to block the transparency on our transparent displays!"
"...You mean like a regular screen?"
They were so busy asking if they could that they never bothered to ask if they should.
Exactly. There's a market for that tech. Laptop ain't it.
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I am happy that the common consensus in this topic is "why?"
I kinda like the idea of the laptop industry coming up with a bunch of wild concepts where only one out of ten is ever useful. The car industry does this all the time.
If you go to car shows, you'll see all sorts of cars with a full glass passenger area. They'll never happen, one reason being that you can't fit an air con unit strong enough to keep the passengers from cooking on a sunny day, but they're neat to look at.
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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?
As an additional data point, I've never once had trouble seeing the HUD on my Mazda even while driving into the sun.
On the other hand, they're also focused at infinity so it's easier to glance at than a transparent screen.
AR Tablets for technicians
Lenovo failed to impress me with their laptops. Brand isnt worth dick anymore
Their tablets also fail to impress.
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So what's the benefit of it being transparent?
It functions more like a drawing tablet, with the ability to put something behind the screen allowing you to easily trace it.
so nothing most users would use. It sounds more practical for kids.
5 year old me would love it
That's all?
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.
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.
y tho
Disgusting. Other than shock value there's absolutely no benefit to any of the design factors. Keyboard is not tactile and it will probably tire your hands fast. Screen is annoying to use and can only be used indoors. It's as if they took worst experiences and then amplified them. What's that, you hate typing on your screen keyboard, how about we make keyboard also touch based and we move it away from screen, now you have to look at keys while typing. Ooh, you hate glares, how about you see glares from front and behind the screen.
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.
Ironically the first thought I had looking at this was "this would make a really great prop for some scifi movie". My second thought was "this looks horrendous to actually use as a laptop". Non-physical buttons suck as car manufacturers recently discovered, and aside from looking cool there's virtually no positives to a transparent laptop screen and a whole raft of negatives.
So yeah, very cool concept, utterly crap product.
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I feel like most of the most of the people here didn’t read the article or watch the video. If you’re asking “why would anyone need this”, the article touches on it:
One of Lenovo’s big ideas is that the form factor could be useful for digital artists, helping them to see the world behind the laptop’s screen while sketching it on the lower half of the laptop where the keyboard is[…]
Also, it’s a prototype, yet people are responding as if this is a product that Lenovo is launching. Even if transparent screens do become a popular but useless fad, that wouldn’t nullify the value of this prototype. Trying shit is fun, especially if it’s something we’ve been imagining in sci-fi for years!
I am so not interested in transparent screen for consumer use. At least not in this shape.
You prefer a curve?
Circular laptops, I think you're onto something here.
Aaargh it looks so cool and futuristic but I know it's impractical as hell
This isn't what we meant when we said bring back transparent electronics.
This is something I'd really want, but I couldn't justify spending money on it.
that sony ericsson phone just got a big brother
But why
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