Holy crap this is cool.
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Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't
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PARK CITY, Utah -- It looks like any of the other stately houses here -- nestled in the snowcapped hills, up narrow winding roads and past a slow wooden gate.
But what makes the two-story, 6,000-square-foot home different from any other is what's inside -- the windows. They turn from clear to opaque white with the push of a button. Many double as speakers, computer monitors or television sets.
Not all of them are fashioned to handle such elaborate tasks. But what the mundane windows lack in technological wizardry is more than compensated for by their abundance.
The home is full of them. On the roof, between rooms and standing in for countless feet of wallboard as an integral part of the building's structure. They are stacked on top of one another in bathrooms, bedrooms and in 30-foot-high combinations at the house's front.
Some rooms can draw in sunlight from all four walls. The house's entire span is visible, if one wants it to be, from one end to the other at almost any vantage point.
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Phaedrus
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Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't
(Wired/Associated Press)
PARK CITY, Utah -- It looks like any of the other stately houses here -- nestled in the snowcapped hills, up narrow winding roads and past a slow wooden gate.
But what makes the two-story, 6,000-square-foot home different from any other is what's inside -- the windows. They turn from clear to opaque white with the push of a button. Many double as speakers, computer monitors or television sets.
Not all of them are fashioned to handle such elaborate tasks. But what the mundane windows lack in technological wizardry is more than compensated for by their abundance.
The home is full of them. On the roof, between rooms and standing in for countless feet of wallboard as an integral part of the building's structure. They are stacked on top of one another in bathrooms, bedrooms and in 30-foot-high combinations at the house's front.
Some rooms can draw in sunlight from all four walls. The house's entire span is visible, if one wants it to be, from one end to the other at almost any vantage point.
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Phaedrus
