Double-sided transparent touch display would make Battleship amazing
By Nilay Patel 
posted Aug 29th 2008 8:34PM
posted Aug 29th 2008 8:34PM
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Actually in Battleship you cant see the other side.... were u ever a child?
HA! I'm glad someone noted this. Now is the screen could reveal your opponents square when you select it to reveal a battleship. THAT would be cool. I guess technically we can do this already. They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell.
Heck I could also see the above using used to create a "RADAR" feature in Battleship opening up 4 squares at a time. I need to patent this idea now :-P
Could you please tell me more about this material :
"They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell."
Thanks :)
@Nick
Well, I was a child once and I remember that each player had two grids. On one, you arrange your ships and record opponent shots; on the other, you record your own shots.
Now, it doesn't take too much imagination to conceive a game with three (instead of four) grids in total: each player still arranges their ships on a private grid, but they also share a transparent grid that records both their shots. Simple and effective...
"Could you please tell me more about this material?"
http://www.avantisystemsusa.com/products/framless_partitions/lcd.htm
You need Flash :P
The future of games will be, in a word, badass.
If it's transparent, then wouldn't that make Battleship kind of easy?
Or possibly twice as hard. Remember, the opponent is looking at your ships also. Its a race to who can destroy then first.
So whoever goes first wins...lame. At least you won't have to worry about the cheaters who don't put one of their ships on until the end.
Umm, it's double sided.
Battleship's gonna be easy as hell.
Title failure.
Needs more pretty anti-aliasing.
Do you even understand how the game of Battleship is played?
Or transparent windows that can change wallpapers with touch sensitive interactivity on a rainy day! Just my wishful thinking.
I think it would be cool. for like the game board at the top with where you have hit and misses and your own screen at the bottom with your ships and stuff (referring to battleships)
Uh...when was battleship NOT amazing?
maybe he's referring to the top where you place the pegs of places you've already called? other than that, i dont know how it would be a good idea for battleships. now connect 4 on the other hand.....
Now we know what it would look like to live inside a Nintendo DS.
I just had a serious flash-forward of myself as some crazy old lady telling my grandchild "back in my day we actually had to pick up the pieces to play connect-4!"
Ahahah doublesided TRON with fingers?
I think ELECTRONIC TALKING BATTLESHIP is extreme enough.
Not too reassuring that their X player seems to have actually managed to lose tic-tac-toe ... and O could have won it a whole round earlier if it hadn't played so badly too.
Battleship on transparent screen...I hope it's bullet proof too.
It'll certainly make those visits to your relatives in prison much more fun and interesting
Could you please tell me more about this material :"They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell."
Thanks :)
YOU SUNK MY SCRABBLESHIP!
@AlexB
I think regular transparent monochrome LCD screens fit this description. Have you ever seen those little clocks with LCDs suspended in a little "window", and the numbers appearing within?
Make a matrix out of that, and you have what the above commenter is describing.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
why do nerds always pick on the title or minor references in an article rather than the article itself?