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It's raining like hell right now and I can't see a damned thing outside the window cause its covered in a freakin' photon refracting array of water droplets, damnit!
So, install these handy wipers on your home or office windows and rid them of bent image. Watch mother nature's madness in full definition,
kapow! Much better...
They would easily disassemble and hide away, as well. For aesthetics and all that. No self-respecting individual would want to be seen with these out during the dry season.
If only to see the oncoming tornado?
Spin window (1)
http://www.youtube....watch?v=YPVBnBK09OM
[mouseposture, Apr 04 2011]
Spin window (2)
http://www.navysbir...3/navysb063-176.htm
[mouseposture, Apr 04 2011]
Black-Lit House
Black-Lit_20House
About titanium dioxide on more than just windows. [Vernon, Apr 11 2011]
[link]
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Motorized vehicles with windshields have them. Although technically those are windshield wipers. |
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or better still, go to the highest point of your
building, start rocking back and forth, and weeble-
wobble your building to the nearest dry patch. (sorry
codrakon, couldn't resist) |
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[+] A good automatic window cleaning device is
something worth a lot of $$. It would presumably
replace the guys hanging from buildings and looking
into offices and bedrooms, and the end to an
endless stream of movie scenes, where paint cans
fall from heaven. |
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Also a highly required product for solar collectors
installed on the roof. |
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I picture an 'air hockey' style apparatus for cleaning
those, but that's not really gonna happen. How do
they clean those things? A fair question I'd say. |
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A battery-powered puck which holds onto the windows and cleans them, both by static cling and repulsion; sounds neat. |
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Spin windows work better <link1> They're used for this
purpose on the bridges of ships <link2> |
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A cheaper option might be to install an a layer on
the glass that repels water on its own. |
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Also maybe it was a dream, but i think i remember
Vernon saying there were compound which could be
put in windows to kill spores and other materials
that tend to hang out on windows. Again this might
have been a dream. |
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Vernon mentioned titanium dioxide in this context once. Unless I was having the same dream. |
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Just use a magnetic fishtank cleaner. |
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Magnetic fish are actually easier to keep; a simple lump of
iron prevents them from wandering off. |
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Oh, give me a home,
Where the win-roombas roam,
And the sights are exceedingly near! |
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Where rain dare not stick,
On panes thin or thick,
And the windows are contin'ously clear!
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Humor greatly appreciated, but I was actually being serious for once. They make these things that are like a sponge with magnet inside that goes on the inside of the tank, and a second part that looks kind of like a chalkboard eraser that goes on the outside. You hold the outside half and slide it around, and it drags the sponge around inside the tank, cleaning the algeae off of the glass. Easily repurposed for rain removal, I should think. |
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Well, the problem with the sponge is that it works as long as the glass is submerged. But you won't be able to get a dry pane of glass with that technique, methinks. You'll have lots of streaks and that's part of what we're trying to avoid. |
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//magnet inside that goes on the inside of the tank, and a second part that looks kind of like a chalkboard eraser that goes on the outside.// |
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You could always reverse that and get the fish to do the outside of the tank. Then they could work their way up to doing a whole window... |
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Okay, then, maybe a magnetic squeegee? It would
eliminate the need for complicated levers or electric
motors. |
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