If you are a big fan of Minority Report starring Tom Cruise then the future not only awaits you, it’s actually here. Samsung has revealed an update to the common window in a house and revealed their Samsung Smart Window. The Samsung Smart Window adds a 22 inch LCD flat screen that has a resolution of 1680 x 1050 resolution and has a 500:1 contrast ratio.
If you want to gaze out into your yard through your kitchen window but get the weather forecast to decide whether gardening is a good idea for the day, the Smart Window will allow you to do both. Samsung’s new technology has made the traditional LCD up to 20 percent more transparent than old LCD technology.
Socializing your window through Twitter and Facebook while you watch hummingbirds is now a reality. Eat your heart out Tom Crusie. It sounds like by year end of 2012 the consumer market will have these transparent LCD screens available for installation in homes spreading a new technology that has rarely been discussed, the Smart Window.
We’re providing two videos from Las Vegas’s CES 2012 Samsung Smart Window presentation. One of the videos is from SamsungUSATube and is their official #CES2012 presentation at the event of their Smart Window. The other video we are providing is from Mobile Nations Ashley Esqueda giving a demo of the LCD Smart Window in the Samsung CES booth. Ashley’s demo reveals her fasicnation with the technology and that she, like many others, is hoping for a Minority Report future sooner rather than later.
Mobile Nation’s Ashley Esqueda Samsung Smart Window Demo:
Looks amazing. But why all this talk about the bloody kitchen? Put this on transport. Cars – inbuilt augmented GPS etc. Planes – readings/gauges and warning systems for environments and wind.
I can imagine even more advance features such as being able to ‘dispel’ a foggy/raining environment or enhance lighting during low light. So much beneficial visual aids for the driver or pilot. If you get A.I. smart enough on it to highlight potential dangers (pedestrian with headphones on not looking at where they’re going) or flash different views of the car (a biker rushing in on the inside lane that you were just going to pull into) then you would have gone beyond Minority Report level of tech.
Solar powered as well? Car manufcaturers should be clamouring to make there cars smarter with this piece of tech.
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