Yes its true! And no not the Microsoft kind of Windows, but the windows we look out of to see the sun and a big Florida palm tree. I know you all remember my rant about flying cars and you are waiting for my big 80’s pop culture movie reference: Total Recall. Remember that Arnold classic? Not as old as me? Got it. OK, how about Iron Man 3? Tony wakes up and pushes a button. The windows then become clear and he can see the glorious view. It seems someone had the idea a long time ago to use liquid crystal technology inside of a window. It seems it just took a few years for technology to catch up to their ideas!
Liquid crystal Windows are switchable glass panes with a liquid crystal layer changing light transmission properties in order to control light and heat intake. Specific liquid crystal mixtures containing dyes act as an interlayer between two glass sheets. This technology trademarked Licrivision™ is based on liquid crystals typically used in display technology. Liquid crystal Windows with Licrivision™ can change their permeability for visible daylight and solar radiation through a molecular switching process from bright to dark and vice versa. The switching process is actuated by conductive layers that are invisibly integrated into the window. The switching occurs instantly, continuously and evenly across the entire surface of the window. Opaque to see-thru in seconds. You can manually control them with your iPad or workstation or you can set controls to be more automated with external sensors dictating the adjustments based on the weather. Or you could just ask Jarvis!
Either way it seems the future is here…..I just don’t have my flying car yet!