Thread: Electric Window Tint

there is a company or two you can buy smart glass "variable tint" automotive products, one is Asahi glass, they make the glass sets for toyota and lexus and recently displayed this at the tokyo auto show on the hino bus' link below
http://www.gizmag.com/go/8253/
or you can buy a custom glass set from american glass products that is a aftermarket fit, see them at this website, and look for "vario plus sky"
http://www.agpglass.com/agp-tech-varioplus2.htm
you may also be able to buy them from Isoclima glass, Italy, as a custom set, or go to the smartglass.com website of research frontiers, the inventor and patent holder.
hope this helps
Seth

Originally Posted by snickers

there is a company or two you can buy smart glass "variable tint" automotive products, one is Asahi glass, they make the glass sets for toyota and lexus and recently displayed this at the tokyo auto show on the hino bus' link below
http://www.gizmag.com/go/8253/
or you can buy a custom glass set from american glass products that is a aftermarket fit, see them at this website, and look for "vario plus sky"
http://www.agpglass.com/agp-tech-varioplus2.htm
you may also be able to buy them from Isoclima glass, Italy, as a custom set, or go to the smartglass.com website of research frontiers, the inventor and patent holder.
hope this helps
Seth

Now that is good information.

Nice to see this thread progressing a little?

I stumbled onto this research while looking for plasma guns

Anyways, here is the link http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_.../20071213.html They built a film that goes transparent to mirror! Not like that is better then OLED (hehe) but it sure would look cool on a silver car. Thought everyone would like to know.

Also, you apply 5 volts to set it one way then -5 to go the other.

Check this one out.

http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/aist_to...line_18_2.html Full screen shot with girl standing behind it to see the full effect. Not sure if this is the same stuff from above.

forgive me if there is a new thread, but being this one is titled correctly and all..

there is a car company now doing it... tho not sure if any others around yet?
if so anyone got any for australia?

Youtube- Showing car with eletronic on/off tint with wireless remote
http://www.defiantaudiollc.com/

Originally Posted by mayhembdm666

forgive me if there is a new thread, but being this one is titled correctly and all..

there is a car company now doing it... tho not sure if any others around yet?
if so anyone got any for australia?

Youtube- Showing car with eletronic on/off tint with wireless remote
http://www.defiantaudiollc.com/

For that price, I don't think they are actually tinting it. (I didn't play the Youtube video yet, just read some of the comments). $10K for the installation seems like an average price for getting new glass made that fits with the liquid polymers embedded between the glass. Same thing the car companies have been doing for over a decade. Does the video actually show a film of tint?

The video shows it in use after installation, so only a walk around.

I've not looked into this one to much as been flat out with projects at work. But the appearance does look to be that of a liquid polymers.
It is a instant on/off with a normal key fob/remote.

Originally Posted by mayhembdm666

The video shows it in use after installation, so only a walk around.

I've not looked into this one to much as been flat out with projects at work. But the appearance does look to be that of a liquid polymers.
It is a instant on/off with a normal key fob/remote.

Well you can modulate LCDs pretty well to get an effective "dimming" but judging from the response from the creator they are not very bright. They probably just got custom polymered glass, installed it, and put it on a standard remote fob. A brainless monkey can do that, and I think they did. The real thing is waiting for a thin film application. With the new "paint-on" polymers they have for new LCDs, it may become feasible in the future.

that stuff in the video above is a film that applies just like tinting film. but it only has 2 states, and is not transparent when turned on..

on the other side, there is a company that offers custom laminated glass that can have a variable black tint, but i can't seem to find nay recent update emails they've sent me, and can't remember the name..

I really don't think that one was a film? I can't see them charging 10k to install film? It looked just like the stuff I saw 10 or so years ago for home use, which was actually embedded between 2 layers of glass.