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As I watched I saw the scene on the window change from a tranquil snowfield to a raging river, all white water and broken canoes. I realised that the bright, reflective scenes were probably keeping the interior of the car cool.
The car intrigued me. I had watched for a good ten minutes, during
which time no less than 30 images had resolved on the windows and windscreens, some of them even seemed to be Flash animations..
After doing some research, and finding it was simply a thin, cheap, colour LCD layer smeared on the inner side of the glass by partially trained monkeys using their butts, like window tint, it occurred to me I needed this feature for my company fleet, to enable advertising wherever the cars were parked during the day. Battery drain turned out to be minimal.
Roland wanted see whether he could upload some photos from his private collection. I slapped him across the back of the head... The monkeys followed suit, until he began spanking one of them.
WARNING: **DO NOT ACTIVATE WHILE VEHICLE IS MOVING**
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As long as there are no "Golden Arches" in that WindScreenSaver, you got my vote! Great idea. [+] |
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If you had a fleet of vehicles, you could coordinate all of the images to produce one large image. All you would need would be a GPS and wireless connections. Each vehicle would represent a group of pixels that when viewed from a distance, would produce a complete picture. |
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Oh, it's available. You get to choose your own pictures / animations. |
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Good point, [Klaatu]. It would be ideal for motor dealerships, too. |
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Of course, you would have to be sure that the employee you laid off today doesn't decide to get 'even' by substituting "Behind The Green Door", for that lovely Accura commercial that you have been running. |
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Or the Christmas-party-induced colour photocopies of their hairy, fat, sweaty butt. |
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[UB] thanks for the lovely graphic which I will carry as I drift off to sleep //hairy, fat, sweaty butt//. |
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Hook the video surveillance system into the feed and any constable passing by would be able to monitor your fleet as they drove by. |
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You could even have a 3-dimensional view by having one camera facing in each of 3 directions. As you approach the vehicles, the first image you would see would be camera '1' that is shooting from your perspective. As you passed by the front of the fleet the scene would have the view from the street side. And the last would show the view as seen from that vantage point. |
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I'm struggling with your meaning, there. |
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The cars face the street on the lot. As you drive towards the lot, you see the driver's window first. The view that you see is from surveillance camera '1' which is facing in the same direction that you are driving. Surveillance cameras '2' & '3' are each at a 90º angle from the first. You see image '1' on the driver's door. Image '2' is seen on the front windscreen and image '3' is seen on the passenger window. So, as you drive by, the scene changes as though you were seeing the view from 3 angles. You see the entire scene as though you were turning your head. |
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This isn't a bad idea if the device is set to not operate when the engine is started and battery drain really does turn out to be minimal. |
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That should be easy enough. I don't have figures for power requirements of LCD screens, but the charge held in a car battery is substantial. |
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If this screen could be made transparent when viewed from inside the car, but still active when viewed from the outside (so that it could be used while driving) then vulnerable drivers could use it to convince potential car-jackers (or other 'hostiles') that the car contained a burly and aggressive passenger - to act as a deterrent. |
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How would the screen be transparent when switched off? When I look at an LCD monitor which is off I don’t see the workings behind the screen I see my reflection. While this is of course a delightful image I am curious about the mechanism for making it transparent. |
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LCD screens are naturally transparent. A sheet of plastic (or whatever) is added so that you have a uniform backdrop to read the text. |
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I've seen plenty of static windscreen savers. A whole lot cheaper and less potentially distracting (zero chance of them going off in traffic, for example). |
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I really don't worry much about them activating while driving. That risk could be very easily minimized with some simple interlocks, i.e. the display system is powered by a mechanical switch only when the key is in the off position and the starter could be disabled when there is power to the display system. |
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I worry more about the viewability. What will backlight the display? How will it look with no uniformly colored backing? |
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I suppose you could use a layer of that LCD glass that goes from transparent to translucent white as a backing. As for backlighting...maybe a nice Solatube skylight installed through the roof? |
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//a nice Solatube skylight installed through the roof// |
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Or open the sunroof? That would allow the heat buildup that we are trying to avoid, I guess. |
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Why stop with the windshield? I
would like my whole car to be an
LCD screen. + |
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//Or open the sunroof?// Fine for me here, but doesn't it rain occasionally in your territory? |
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Yeah, but not as much as in Seattle. I'm thinking of simply sliding back the shade, leaving the glass panel closed. We have recently gained that technology :D |
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Yeah, my limited perspective working there. I've never been to Seattle. All of my 3 sunroofs are steel. Works well for me around here. The times of the year where I don't need the shade to prevent combustion, I can just open the roof and the windows. |
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If instead of sliding back, your shade folded down in to some sort of sun tracking reflectorized backlight providing thingy... |
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Seattle? Averages something like 84 clear days a year, as I recall. Sounds delightful, doesn't it? |
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For the reflector... maybe one of those highly reflective dash protectors? |
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Yeah. I think we average >300 days of sun. But, Seattle has other redeeming qualities. |
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Maybe some sort of paraboloid, highly complicated, kaleidoscopic, telescopic, origamic thing. |
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I enjoy the phrase "thin, cheap, colour LCD layer" a little
more than the one "affixed to the inner side of the the
glass." The second phrase would be much funnier if it
read "affixed to the inner side of the glass by trained
monkeys using only their butts." Then I would enjoy it
more than the first one. |
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In other words, which one of the following would you like
to include with the word cheap in the first phrase: |
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Is that more to your liking, sir? |
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