See-thru screen. The next monitors for powerbooks.
 

Check this out. You can see right through the monitor. This is way to cool. What will Apple think of next? I definitely want one of these.

http://idisk.mac.com/jidnet/Public/dbook-transp.mov

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RLC

not sure if this is some slick video editing and should be put with one of my previous posts about fake Apple products or if it is worth taking seriously! Not sure I like the idea of seeing whats behind my screen, or even worse someone seeing what I am doing!!

See thru options
 

If you don't want the see-thru option, you can always put a cover on the backside. Eventually, you will be able to use a light pen to write on both sides of the see-thru display.

I even hear that you may be able to draw on the display while the lid is closed. The only thing I don't know is when are they going to start selling these lids with the computer.

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RLC

that is really cool but someone had to have modded that sceen. Wouldn't the sceen get damaged really easily ? Unless they used some really hard plastic-type material for the backing. What would be cool would be replaceable backings like see thru,white,aluminum,titanium!

I am almost certain that this is a (very well done) fake.
I.e. I think it was done via standard blue-screen (or green-screen) techniques with Final Cut Pro. These techniques are used for example in commercial films for showing actors in front of other backgrounds.
See for example this tutorial on Ken Stone's site:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...d_monahan.html

I agree - a clever fake. If it was really transparent, then the background seen "through" the screen wouldn't appear brighter (as it does to my eye anyway) than it does when the same area is seen directly.

You should be able to change the opaqueness of the screen.
 

Changing the opaqueness of the screen would also rock. Then you would have the option of the screen being transparent or opaque or anywhere in between. You will need some really cool graphics to be able to manipulate both the transparent screen along with transparent windows in that resides inside the screen.

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RLC

I think this is actually something you can paint on the back of a screen and turn the back transparent. It works better on some screens than others. Quite a few people are doing this.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/transparentscreens/pool/

:-)

Ps. I like this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/...parentscreens/

Why? What's it good for? :confused:

Showing off your blue/green screen skills in Final Cut.

Chris

Two things.

One, St. Romain, seeing through it can be helpful for a lot of things. Tracing, reading instructions, aligning digital pictures with reality, typing up documents, impressing your soon to be girlfriend... the list goes on :-).

Second, did any one else notice that it had two latches on it? Might be because a see through screen is more fragile, or it could be another clever trick to make it look 'different'.

Watching your STBG. :)

The 17 inch powerbook has two latches - see the photo here: http://www.apple.com/powerbook/

And by the way, one of my correspondents has revealed to me that this transparency is a preferences option in the still-ultra secret initial builds of 10.5
:)

Transparent aluminum and Macs have a long history together.

"Hello, computer..." :D

Well, OK, I guess so long as you could easily have a non-transparent option, this could be useful in some cases, as some of you have noted.

I just remember all the hoopla about how annoying transparent menus were when OS X first came out -- how irritated some apparently were by info from the background showing through the menus. To think that the entire display might be even more transparent than those menus . . .

I would be much more impressed if the person could make the Finder background transparent.

I would be more impressed if they could make themselves transparent.

That's easy
 

That's easy. Use GeekBind. That ought to do it.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=107365

I'm sorry. I don't see the above program doing that. It talks about binding keys to something. Making things more like Fluxbox, and I am thinking of making the bright white between icons disappear when a Finder Window is open, when Mail is open - things of that sort. Like what Adium does for the HUGE iChat window.

Thanks though.

this transparent screen is a defiante possibility, i had a screen replaced in my powerbook machine, and all they replaced is the lcd panel and not the whole aluminum, support arround it. The aluminum, and Plastic backings on the powerbooks and iBooks, can be removed and the screen will still work.. its the same as turning the brightness of the lcd lamp right down, u can still see whats happening on the screen just not as bright.. the backings on the laptops, allow for us to achieve the brightness and clarity of the screen..

Look suspicious, where is the Apple Logo on the back of the screen
 

I just noticed that there isn't an Apple logo on the back of the screen. Is it possible that they have a video camera on the back side that feeds into the desktop?

This would explain how this is done.

It would be unlikely that Apple would throw away the logo on the powerbook.

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RLC

Look a little closer. Two clips on the top of the lid.
 

On the top of the lid, there appears to be two clips. I bet those clips are mounted to the video camera on the backside of the powerbook.

Mystery solved.

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RLC

Perhaps, but given the desktop shows the menu bar, I bet they set their desktop wallpaper to green or blue, then used the blue screen to impose the image of that desktop minus the laptop over it.

That's exactly what they did. You can still see some hints unkeyed green at the corners.

Since the camera doesn't move, all you have to do is shoot a short clip of the scene without the PowerBook, then shoot the scene with the PowerBook with a bright green desktop image and replace the green with the video of the scene without the PowerBook. Final Cut Pro or After Effects can do it easily.