Samsung Smart Window

Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window at CES 2012 [Official]

One of the most exciting things at the CES 2012 last week was the Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window.

The Transparent Smart Window is a 46” LCD panel (1366×768 px) that really could take the world of tablets to another level. While it can do everything that your ordinary tablet or computer screen does, it’s also lucid so that you can look through it and see what’s outside your home or wherever you choose to put it. Thanks to its solar cells and the lucid screen it’s really eco-friendly since it uses the solar cells to charge it (partly), the ambient light as backing light during daytime and when it get’s dark it has two built in lights for that as well.

The Transparent Smart Window is built so that it looks like an ordinairy window for the outside viewer, in other words: they can’t see what’s going on on the screen.
This makes wonder though, how stupid would it look for the one on the outside, seeing someone pulling and dragging its hands back and forth on, what for them looks like an
ordinairy window.

Anyway, one other feature they pointed out last week at the CES 2012 was the virtual blinds.

The virtual blinds works just like ordinary blinds so you can decide how much of the outside light you want in your home. They didn’t mention anything about how the window will look from the outside wile using the blinds though, and because of the fact that it doesn’t show any other applications from the outside one could guess that that’s also the case for the blinds (but hopefully not).

It’s unfortunately too early to get a word on the price, or even estimate when this will be available in stores.