HIGH-TECH BRINGS ITS SMARTS TO BUILDINGS
Apr 27, 2016 by Jon Swartz
“In a cavernous manufacturing plant about 20 miles from Memphis, a vision of the future is humming away.
A California start-up called View, which has raised a whopping $500 million from investors including Corning, General Electric and Khosla Ventures, is making high-tech windows that have the potential to bring to buildings what high-resolution touchscreens did for smartphones.
View’s windows eliminate glare, change hue, moderate internal temperature — and at some point, could show entirely different views of the outside world — via a process that uses a pane of glass sprayed with electrochromic material, which alters light transmission.
The result is smart glass that increases energy efficiency and promises better worker productivity, via technology accessed through an app.”