Technology

How to Defrost Your Windshield Without Risking a Windshield Replacement This Winter

November 28, 2011

Winter generally heralds the time of frosted and iced-over windshields, and people deal with this problem in various ways.  There are some whose cars already have defrosting technology: for instance, some of Ford’s cars have something the auto maker calls “Quickclear”, a defrosting system engineered into the windshield during production.  However, for the vast majority [...]

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Is the Sunroof the Future of Auto Glass Development?

October 4, 2011

If there is anything one may say of the automobile manufacturing industry as a whole, it would be that it never genuinely takes a pit stop.  Auto manufacturers are constantly on the lookout for the next best thing or latest technological tweak to add to their automotive designs, and every now and then, the lookouts [...]

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Smart Auto Glass: Voltage-Triggered Glass that Changes Colour with the Press of a Button

August 8, 2011

Have you ever heard of electrochromism?  This is a phenomenon that occurs when an electrochromic substance changes opacity after being stimulated by voltage.  The change may appear differently in different types of electrochromic materials.  Some glass switches from being dark blue, for instance, into being perfectly transparent. Other types go from being frosted white (and [...]

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