{"id":30850,"date":"2016-10-07T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/panasonic-just-unveiled-a-new-invisible-television"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:39","slug":"panasonic-just-unveiled-a-new-invisible-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/panasonic-just-unveiled-a-new-invisible-television","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic just unveiled a new invisible television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eoIQmWd8LTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the arrival of flat-screen TVs, there\u2019s not been a whole lot to get excited about in the world of televisions \u2014 how many ways can you improve on a big slab of glass, after all? Well, how about by making it almost invisible when you\u2019re not using it?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the thinking behind a new prototype from Panasonic that\u2019s just been shown off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceatec.com\/en\/\">the CEATEC electronics expo<\/a> in Japan this week. When switched on, it\u2019s just like a normal TV. When switched off, it\u2019s as transparent as glass, meaning you can see the wall or shelving behind.<\/p>\n<p>Panasonic <a href=\"http:\/\/news.panasonic.com\/global\/stories\/2016\/44615.html\">describes it<\/a> as the \u201cfuture of display screens\u201d \u2014 although as you might expect, the company\u2019s staying tight-lipped about the technology behind its transparent TV, just in case its competitors have something similar in mind.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-prototype-tv-becomes-invisible-when-it-s-switched-off\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-prototype-tv-becomes-invisi...itched-off<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the arrival of flat-screen TVs, there\u2019s not been a whole lot to get excited about in the world of televisions \u2014 how many ways can you improve on a big slab of glass, after all? Well, how about by making it almost invisible when you\u2019re not using it? That\u2019s the thinking behind a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60143,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30850\/revisions\/60143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}