Best of CES: Samsung Smart Window


Posted by The Shogun on 16 Jan 2012 / 3 Comments


Futurists will have been salivating at the sight of the Samsung Smart Window at CES 2012. Looking like a prop out of Minority Report, the Smart Window showed off an impressive implementation of touchscreen technology on top of a seemingly ordinary pane of glass. Everything from checking your Twitter feed to finding out the weather, the Smart Window showed off an impressive array of abilities and suitably won much acclaim in the tech press.

Clearly, this type of technology is what we should be expecting to see in the future. The Iron Man idea of a home where embedded technologies are seemlessly built into our constant surroundings breaking down the barrier between real life and ubiquitous computing looks closer than ever to becoming real.

Perhaps what was most impressive about the demo was that it was an actual working product and not encased behind thick glass like the crown jewels.

Written by The Shogun

Soul Editor, Writer and Creator of TheUrbanShogun.com

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  • Monica

    I would love to have a house like the one in Ironman!! It’d be awesome to have every glass surface integrated into a home network so you could start a project in one room and finish in another like DISH’s new receiver the Hopper. It’d have to be equipped with a massive hard drive though. The Hopper can store over 250 hours of HD content, more than anyone in the industry, and has a 750MHZ processor making it the fastest satellite receiver. I got to take a look at it the other day because they had one here at DISH for us to check out and it is really nice. I just hope they don’t make us wait too long for it.

    • http://www.theurbanshogun.com Shogun168

      Haha well apparently, it won’t be too long before it comes to market. If every pane in the glass was just like this smart window, which i think in the future it will, we’ll really be surrounded in digital information. And nice! Speaking of which, i need to get a new HD ;)