# WANT **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008 "2010-01-07T06:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/1 "2010-01-07T06:16:57Z")
> **[The Invisible OLED Laptop to End All Laptops](https://gizmodo.com/the-invisible-oled-laptop-to-end-all-laptops-5442217)** > > It's only a proof of concept, but this is laptop with a clear OLED screen—but a stone's throw from those floating 3D displays of Avatar. Practical? Not necessarily. The future? OBVIOUSLY. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/2 "2010-01-07T08:30:29Z")
I’m waiting for the one that just floats in the air. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/3 "2010-01-07T09:36:59Z")
I like that the first picture in the gallery is tits. Good to see they know where the priorities lie… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/4 "2010-01-07T14:06:25Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > I like that the first picture in the gallery is tits. Good to see they know where the priorities lie… If that’s what Internet porn is going to look like in the future, then I’ll keep my good old opaque monitor, TYVM. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/5 "2010-01-07T14:35:18Z")
The definition of “A solution searching for a problem.” ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/6 "2010-01-07T14:54:25Z")
It’s like the Sony Xperia Pureness phone: Gimmicky without any real point. Aside from integrating the technology into some sort of high tech, Night Rider (the most recent one) HUD, I can’t think of a reason I’d _want_ a transparent display, though I can think of numerous reasons I _wouldn’t_. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/7 "2010-01-07T18:30:14Z")
Cool to look at but pointless. I can imagine working on one all day would be an exercise in frustration. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/8 "2010-01-07T18:34:40Z")
Now, what we really need is a transparent cat. Then I’d be so happy that I could actually see my laptop that I wouldn’t care if it was transparent or not. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/9 "2010-01-07T18:35:51Z")
It looks like crap for doing normal laptop work. But add a forward-facing video camera and some precision location-tracking hardware and you’ve got a great platform for augmented reality … . ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/10 "2010-01-07T18:48:17Z")
What, so that I could let everyone see what I was working on? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/11 "2010-01-07T19:00:23Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > What, so that I could let everyone see what I was working on? Here, I fixed it for you: What, so that I could let everyone see what I was “working” on? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/12 "2010-01-07T19:02:18Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > What, so that I could let everyone see what I was working on? “He’s reading EPOD THGIARTS EHT again!” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/13 "2010-01-08T01:35:00Z")
Heh. You know that video where you’re supposed to stare at a screen for a long time hunting for some kind of minutiae and, all of a sudden, a monster face pops up and screams? Do that when you’re sitting opposite of someone on a bus. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/14 "2010-01-08T05:22:52Z")
Trying to read on that thing would give me a killer headache. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want/524008/15 "2010-01-08T06:38:31Z")
If you could make it opaque from the other side then you could spy on people.