Richard Feynman claimed to be the only person to see the explosion without the goggles provided, relying on a truck windshield to screen out harmful ultraviolet wavelengths.
They envision bright maps on visors and windshields, television screens built into eyeglasses, and roll-up, see-through computer screens.
Head-up displays, or HUDs, project turn-by-turn directions and other vehicle information onto a windshield or reflector screen, and the technology is quickly making its way into new vehicles.
Black and white photographs -- the bottom of a truck, a lone orchid, a shattered windshield -- move from screen to screen, until each image seems to move off the stage.
Unlike Mean Streets's Johnny Boy or Raging Bull's Jake LaMotta, De Niro's character is an observer, creeping past depravity, his windshield like a movie screen.
"All the preaching in the world does not teach a teen driver as much as asking them to text while they're behind the wheel in a simulator, and they 'crash' into the car in front of them, and see and hear the windshield shatter on the screen," said Donald Fisher, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Probably the first thing you'll notice is that his front windshield is an LCD screen displaying Lightning's animated eyes.
The new transistors are made from oxide semiconductors, such as zinc oxide, which are currently used in conductive coatings for touch screens and windshield defrosters.
The charmingly sea-worn tug is constructed from leather belts, pieces of metal screen and old windshield wipers; the barge itself, built from cardboard and wood, is laden with gumball-machine-size toys and plastic-draped scraps.
IHS has noted that automakers could eventually turn the entire windshield into an augmented reality screen.
