Intelligent materials which can adapt to their environment and those which, more modestly, are able to alter their properties as required by their users are called "intelligent" or sometimes get pre-fixed with 'i-'. Liquid crystal glazing can be used to instantly block out intrusive observers. Thanks to electrochromism, blinds or curtains are no longer needed to darken a room: just press a button and a window will darken. At night, electroluminescent polymers can be used so that windows continue to emit light. Intelligent materials will be user and environmentally friendly. Continually self-cleaning materials, which are presently at the development stage, will keep roofs, windows and external glazed walls effortlessly clean without the need of special cleaning products. Many of them are used to make traditional products more attractive, enjoyable and safer to use. One company, namely the LTI Group in USA, give a multitude of applications not excluding ballistic glass. Thanks to the MWCoA forum for the tip & giving me the insight for this blog.Living glass is applied to that glass that inter-acts with the user by coming into or near its vicinity: two demonstrations are given below. This glass will probably be the worse nightmare for window cleaners!
And finally, inter-active glass that will still need cleaning, but probably not by your average window cleaner, but I couldn't resist adding the video's as I'm blown away by this technology. If you want to keep up with this technology, go to Microsoft suface, Mindstorm, i-bar or google any of the title key words.
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