CES: Samsung Smart Window

[highwaystar101]

HappySqurriel said:

highwaystar101 said:

In all seriousness, who would want this window?

I have never had the urge to check my email from a window and I doubt I ever will. It may have some niche applications, but I doubt Joe Bloggs would ever need to spend thousands of dollars on one of these.

This is a nice idea for a gadget and I can appreciate the hard work that has gone into it, but it has no real purpose other than to impress.

For a few decades people have been creating very poor quality heads-up-displays for cars ... This technology could go a long way towards making them fairly decent. A lot of the technologies that we need for self driving cars are going to initially be implemented as features that provide additional information to drivers. We will need a way to communicate this information to a driver in a way that doesn't distract them, which would best be handled through a HUD with contextual information being added periodically.

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. It's not the screen I see as pointless, that technology has already proved itself as valuable (HUD in aircraft, etc).

It's the window itself being used as an interface. As I said I don't think people would ever do things like check their emails or update Twitter from a window, like the demonstration showed.

I can only see it having more niche, specialist applications