I was just thinking about an article I read some months ago in the
science section of BusinessWeek saying that some company (3M I think)
had come up with a way to cheaply produce thin films that could be made
to selectively block or reflect specifica wavelengths of light. Several
uses they proposed were as an addition to fabrics ("Honny, you look
absolutely *radiant* in that dress. And you hair..") and as a coating
for car-window glass that would selectively pass infrared rays out of
the car (or maybe it was block infrared from coming in - I always
throught that materials absorbed normal light wavelengths and then
reflected longer infrared ones as heat)
Anyway, I wonder if this kind of tech could be used to make a better
anti-glare shield (or perhaps underneath the LCD to selectively absorb
those wavelengths that make it through the "black" state of the LCD
best). Anybody know anyone at 3M?
<SOAP.box> (Doing this would be tilting windmills about equal to the
idea of doing a monochrome 80dpi display based on e-ink technology -
which has already been demonstrated, but Phillips is not going to take
it commercial until they can get smaller dots, a higher refresh rate,
and color, for use in laptop displays - who knows what their target date
will be - and you can be sure that it will cost $1000, when a lousy but
useful monochrome display designed primarily for book reading (after
all, there are a lot more black and white novels than color ones) could
probably be made for $100 or less wholesale. </SOAP.box>
Jim
> All screen protectors that use an anti-glare layer will have some image
> distortion. If a totally clear system is used, the reflections in
> strong
> light can be quite distracting.
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