I read about the plastics they use somewhere. It is possible to print plastic transistor, leds, resistors, ect. They are trying to make windows that are transparent when off, but can show high quality images when necessary, they can currently get them 75% transparent. They are developing transparent plastics that would work to allow this to be possible. The only problem is that they can not make them small enough to be space efficient. There is always gonna be a circuit board until they can print the components smaller. Another problem is a printed flexible power supply, like a chargable battery or a solar panel. i'd be well impressed if they could make a transparent solar panel layered on top and printed the display on the bottom.
A solar panel doesn't need to be completely transparent, just enough so that you wouldn't notice it, eg. every 1000 pixels is actually a photoelectric cell. (but i'm no expert in material physics, so i can't back this up entirely, it's just speculation.
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I read about the plastics they use somewhere. It is possible to print plastic transistor, leds, resistors, ect. They are trying to make windows that are transparent when off, but can show high quality images when necessary, they can currently get them 75% transparent. They are developing transparent plastics that would work to allow this to be possible. The only problem is that they can not make them small enough to be space efficient. There is always gonna be a circuit board until they can print the components smaller. Another problem is a printed flexible power supply, like a chargable battery or a solar panel. i'd be well impressed if they could make a transparent solar panel layered on top and printed the display on the bottom.
How in the world can something which absorbs light for energy be transparent?
A solar panel doesn't need to be completely transparent, just enough so that you wouldn't notice it, eg. every 1000 pixels is actually a photoelectric cell. (but i'm no expert in material physics, so i can't back this up entirely, it's just speculation.
Instead of trying to make the panel transparent, why not simply embed it into the frame? Done right I imagine they could make it look natural enough.