Would love to see that video. You have any other information I can search on?James S said:I remember seeing something like this many years ago, it was a combination of a high quality glass, maybe a lead crystal?, and a special coating and polishing process. As a demonstration they made a wine glass with it and the video was amazing. You couldn't see it at all until they poured wine into it, it was just floating in mid air. Amazing. But the process to polish and coat it was so time consuming and tedious that it never gained any use commercially as far as I know.
Fun to see that people are still working on similar things.
CroMAGnet said:
I remember that movie. Transparent aluminum, or Aluminum oxynitride is what we'll be using next for flashlight windows. (Wiki-link) If somebody can confirm it's electrically conductive (I doubt it, it's actually a ceramic compound), we can start making transparent flashlights.The_LED_Museum said:Scotty on the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" traded the formula for transparent aluminum for Plexiglas sheets thick enough to create water tanks suitable for transporting two humpback whales through time. I don't know if this product is *TRULY* transparent, but it's unusual anyway.