Gallery: ‘Cloaking’ Film for Windows Blacks Out the Screens Within

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    Casper Privacy Film, a new product from office equipment company Steelcase, keeps conference rooms transparent while blacking out screens.
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    The idea, Steelcase suggests, is that offices don’t have to sacrifice security for transparency, and vice versa.
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    Steelcase subsidiary Designtex produced Casper, which comes in two layers. A transparent sheet, available in 15 loosely arranged geometric prints, covers the exterior side of the glass. A “cloaking” film coats the interior.
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    The company won’t say how the Casper technology works or what’s in the film, but it blocks the wavelengths of light emitted by LED and LCD screens. Screens stay camouflaged, while the room’s inhabitants, and their body language and facial expressions, remain visible.
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