Microsoft has announced that it is to make some significant changes to the Windows 8 user interface, including dropping the Aero Glass effect that was first introduced in Windows Vista.
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While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
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The curved glass had a magnifying effect, like a lens: inside, the pale-pink pill was disintegrating as if giving birth to a galaxy or the universe.
Similarly in 1992 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) put forward the idea of launching 55, 000 "solar sails" into orbit around the Earth, each with an area of 100 square kilometers, the sails collectively producing the same effect as Early's single glass panel.
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The effect relies on an angled piece of glass in which a "ghostly" image is reflected.
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The effect comes partly from the all-glass exterior walls, with their view of Biscayne Bay, downtown Miami, the city's port terminal and a series of small islands.
The 17-meter swimming pool is inside on the 24th floor but has an infinity-pool effect, as it sidles up to a glass exterior wall.
The bending creates a lensing effect in the same way that light is bent through glass or plastic in a microscope or your eyeglasses.
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So this may have a spinoff effect -- maybe more blacks will break through the glass ceiling in corporations, more blacks may, because of their newfound confidence, become more civically engaged, run for office.
For something a little fancier, puck lights (small, round discs of light found in your local hardware store) in glass-front cabinets and buffet tables create a dazzling showroom effect.
The effect of the vibrations is similar to that of high-pitched noise shattering glass.
The truth is that even the harshest of the proposals would be far short of the regulations that were in effect, and working very well, right up to the 1999 repeal of Glass Steagall.
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