Nobody would want this explosive situation to happen to them. 5 AM and you are peacefully sleeping when a bomb is thrown at your home and explodes! A Fort Lauderdale home was wrecked by an explosion knocking out 3 windows.
The residents say that if window tint was not installed on the windows, the explosive package would have landed dangerously close to the parent and baby sleeping inside the room. Instead, the package exploded outside the home, but it still
As the new Indian Car Tint Law comes to effect across the giant nation of India, the implementation of the law seems to be gradual. There are reports of waiving initial fines, post-poning the start day of the law, as well as other mitigating options to give time to the local law enforcement to enforce on the new law.
To those that recognize and enjoy the benefits of window tint, there some online reactions are quite negative against the proposed
The Supreme Court of India has declared all aftermarket Indian car tint to be illegal even if it complies with the 70% front and rear windshield as well as 50% side window VLT requirements.
The Supreme Court judgment said, “The directions contained in this judgment shall become operative and enforceable with effect from 4th May, 2012.” The court has ruled that traffic police “shall also remove the black films from the offending vehicles.” “In accordance to the apex court’s order,
Sounds like science fiction! How can glass be glare-free, self-cleaning, AND water-repellant? The wonder kids at MIT continue to innovate with this new texture to the glass surface itself that eliminates many of the problems with glass. It used to be with lead glass had much better optical clarity, but since lead is no longer an acceptable around children and households, glass in windows took a step back.
This new invention has implications beyond standard household glass. Imagine the
New debut 2013 SL and SLK Class Mercedes at the Beijing Auto Show has a Magic Sky technology to the moon roof similar to the window tinting technology found on the Boeing Dreamliner 787. Crystal polymer sandwiched between glass is opaque when there is no electrical charge, and becomes clear when small electrical charge is applied at a touch of a button. No word on whether the Magic Sky technology offered by Mercedes has incremental levels of tinting
Fuwei Films is a leading Chinese PET manufacturing plant with products spanning many markets including electronics, food, and energy conservation. They recently announced 2011 full year financial results. These results give a glimpse at the growth inside China for PET products. Although Fuwei seems to be primarily a BOPET manufacturer, they have expanding product lines and developing patent portfolio:
In August 2011, we received three utility patents from the Ministry of State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC. These utility
Combining the sensual and upscale tastes into window treatment design is quite an art. Wall Street Journal, long read by a well-heeled business owners, wall streeters, and generally aflluent, goes into depth describing the thinking behind curtain design, and happily even gives a description of window tint’s role in the multi-layered approach to the world of curtains, drapes, and window tint.
Some interior designers are looking for inspiration to women’s fashion—specifically to the wispy, sheer blouses and pullovers more women
With a flat 20% darkness limit on all windows of cars and no color and reflectivity limitations, New Mexico has some of the more relaxed tint laws among the 50 states. It is heartening to see a local police department declare in a Daily Times article:
“Our deputies follow state law,” said County Attorney Jim Durrett.
The police department does understand that with the intense sun of the area, tinting is necessary. In fact, a majority of Farmington’s patrol cars have
The recent IWFA energy study that comprehensively evaluates window film performance against other energy products from existing and new homes is a real hit. I am seeing that multiple larger eco-conscious or “green” sites featuring this study in their blog posts. One of the heavier hitting eco sites is Clean Technica, part of a larger blogging family, featured the window film study stating:
International Window Film Association (IWFA) — yeah, I didn’t realize that existed — reported last week that “a
It was quite surprising that this topic would be covered in an article on BusinessWeek. Glass and shades in an office building are quite peripheral in importance to most businesses, other than possible ROI calculations in reducing energy bills. It is heartening to see that other factors are being considered when considering the possibilities of window solutions.
Some of the drawbacks to shades whether automatic or manual:
inertia – once shades are lowered, people are too lazy to raise them back
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