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China mall installs glass windows on men’s toilet doors that turn transparent when users smoke | South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 137 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

The glass uses a special technology that is normally opaque and cuts off the power in a few seconds after it detects smoke, making the glass transparent.

The shopping centres ensure that bathroom users are aware of the function with a notice on the door that says: “The glass will turn transparent if you smoke. Hold your urge to smoke if you do not want to become famous online.”

1: I am not a fan of it requiring power to be opaque. Lights flicker and suddenly we're all pooping with friends.

2: the power of shame is amazing

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 12 points 12 hours ago

The article isnt accurate unless this is a rather unique privacy glass, they are opaque and require the driver to go on to go clear. So in a power outage these fail to opaque. They also are opaque when they fully fail.

[–] RogueBanana@piefed.zip 81 points 18 hours ago

It's amazing how many people blindly put their faith in their tech stuff to never malfunction. It's getting harder and harder to find single purpose things that isn't stuffed with shitty smart features. Mf just let me buy a car that does not get bricked by a software update.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 30 points 17 hours ago

The text is wrong this technology usually fails downwards to the opaque/blurred mode.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 13 hours ago

suddenly we’re all pooping with friends.

Me:

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

hope nobody ever gets literally exposed by a false positive. would be very annoying to be sitting there taking a shit when suddenly you're visible to everyone because some dust made a sensor freak out.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's pretty hard to get a false positive on a pm2.5 sensor if that's what they are using, though spraying deodorant would do it

[–] klu9@piefed.social 0 points 17 hours ago

If you're pooping with friends, what's there to be ashamed of?