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Stanford: New windows switch transparent/opaque and back again in under a minute (stanford.edu)
3 points by ohjeez on Aug 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Don't they already have those in Boeing 787? They say "... available smart windows are ... expensive, have a blue tint, can take more than 20 minutes to dim ..." but the windows in the 787 dim in a few seconds and are evidently cheap enough to install in every 787 airplane. How is this new technology different?


I thought 3M demonstrated this technology over a decade ago. How are these different?




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