Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If a headline is phrased as a question, i.e. “Will X takeover the world this month?”, then the answer is always no, because if the answer was yes they would have written “X will takeover the world by the end of the month” which is a much more declarative and attention grabbing headline.

  Similarly, if a headline says something “could do X” that means it won’t because if it was going to the reporter would have written that it will do X.

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  • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The headline is:

    Why scientists are making transparent wood

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It won’t ever be your cell phone screen. Optically, it’s less clear than what we have, and while the wood/epoxy is “tough”, wood is not “hard”. It will scratch easily.

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• Introversion@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s an interesting line of research, but unless they can completely remove all visual traces of grain, etc, so that it’s very clear, it’s not going to be a replacement for glass in either screens or windows. And I’m skeptical that’s possible.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If got a couple frosted windows that I’d love to be as insulating as wood, I can see it maybe being used for that.

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    • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would also be useful for blinds. My doggie is a bit of a little jerk and wrecked mine trying to look outside while they were closed. Wood blinds would likely be a lot more resilient

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  • Kichae@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, I'd take a woody window to replace the clear glass overlooking the scenic parking lot outside literally any of the apartments I've ever lived in.

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it’s anything like NileRed’s “transparent wood” it won’t work for shit as a window, except as like a privacy window that just lets light through.

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• aev@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Could”.

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  • kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could. Should. Wood.

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• Beelzebob@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An iPhone user will still break it.

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• deleted@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wood is wood and wood breaks.

  Not bad.

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  • normanwall@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Bridger@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Glass can be toughened up a bit by tempering, at a cost. It can be toughened up a lot by other methods up to being made bulletproof at costs both financial and in terms of compromises to clarity and adding a lot of thickness.

      The question is whether ‘transparent wood’ can compete with glass in performance and cost.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and what about vs gorilla glass or sapphire? Y’know, like the kinds of glass already used on smart phones?

      Soda glass, you could just about step on, on a flat surface with no defects, and break it if there’s even mild deviation. Being stronger than glass is a VERY low or high bar depending on the glass.

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