Reflections and glare on your electronic devices is irritating and causes eye strain. Nippon Electric Glass is battling glare for eyeballs everywhere with their so-impressive-you-can’t-even-see-it Invisible Glass.
Reflections and glare are the bane of my existence. Between my MacBook Air and my HDTV, I’m constantly adjusting screens to minimise glare from lamps and the sun. Damn you Sun, Giver of Life! That’s why I’m excited to see that Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd has developed a film for glass that virtually eliminates glare. The film is placed on the front and back of the glass to reduce reflections from light sources. Usually, glass will allow 92 per cent of light pass through it and reflect eight per cent back to the viewer. The Invisible Glass film allows 99.5 per cent of light pass through it and reflects only half a percent back at the viewer.
If you hate maths, just look at the image above. The glass on the left is untreated and the glass on the right that you can’t see, that’s been treated with the film. That should convince you that you want this glass on your next electronic device. There’s no word on when this glass wizardry will make it to market, but my retinas and I are hoping for as soon as possible.
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Cant see it
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 12:28 PMIs the film on the front or the back? Because if it has to go on the front, then it’s useless on phones and touch screens etc, because it will scratch easily, unless it’s scratch free, which somehow I doubt
Steeeeve
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 4:23 PMTL:DR?
In the second paragraph, “The film is placed on the front and back of the glass”.
Jesus
Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 2:54 AMBloody hell its awesome!
@Cant See It
Who cares that it might not be for mobiles!? when your using your phone the screen is right in front of you and you can easily adjust the angle to reduced the glair! + you can get mat screen protectors to stop it!- or hey this film may even be able to be used as a screen protector!!! This technology would be great for TV’s an monitors because who wants to move once they’ve sat on the couch huh?!
Love Jesus
DarthDVD
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 12:42 PMhmmm… does it really need the film to be on the back? cos i see this being retro fitted to many a phone… even if it only has half the effect if you had used front and back (which could only be done at the factory)
Franz
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 1:27 PMBet it doesn’t fell nice to rub your finger across.
Althalus
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 4:23 PMIt would work better on TV’s monitors and on display cases
Nads
Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 5:56 PMThis is magic !!
chris
Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 11:53 PMThats cool, put it on all your glass sliding doors and watch ppl walk into them :)
Mike
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 5:10 PMIs exactly what I and all other responsible adults will be doing :D wooooot!
Jules Etro
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:42 PMIf i was a responsible adult, I’d invest everything I have into their shares.