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A Window Design That Uses Sand Instead of Blinds

We’re going to have to create a new category of impractical but interesting design called “Bar Talk Prototypes.” For when you’re having beers with your buddies, and one of them says something like “Wouldn’t it be cool if instead of using blinds, your window was filled with sand, and you could somehow fill and unfill the sand when you wanted the window blocked or clear?”

One of you thinks it’s neat but impossible, one of you says it’s possible but not worth the hassle, and two of you outright tell your friend he’s an idiot. Then he resolves to build the prototype just to shut you all up, like this:

https://www.core77.com/posts/80129/A-Window-Design-That-Uses-Sand-Instead-of-Blinds