As they open their eyes, they are almost transparent.

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Though the carbon nanotubes absorb infra-red light, they are almost totally transparent to the visible variety.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

As it happens, the coffee-like stains that he and his colleagues had been trying to remove with fast-drying solvents was actually the solution to his problem, since they remained in contact with each other as they dried and preserved conductivity, but left about 95 percent of the light through the holes in the center, thereby making the screen itself almost fully transparent.

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Made of little more than an aluminum structural frame, steel decking and glass, the rectangular and almost-completely transparent house is spartan.

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The original PowerBook laptop set the bar for portable, ergonomic laptops, and in 1998 the transparent, bulbous iMac almost single-handedly moved the world away from dull "beige box" computers.

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