Boris Lamontagne (boris.lamontagne@nrc.ca) at Canada’s National Research Council is looking for a business partner or two to commercialize his smart glass which features ‘micro blinds’. Here’s a demonstration complete with illustrations of the technology,

I found more technical details about the ‘micro blinds’ (from the abstract of a paper, The next generation of switchable glass : the Micro-Blinds, by Boris Lamontagne, Pedro Barrios and Christophe Py at Glassfiles.com (you will need to register at the website to view the full text of the paper),

The micro-blinds are composed of invisible and electrostatically activated curling electrodes of 100 micrometers size. They can be deposited on flat glass by magnetron sputtering like regular low-E coatings, and then patterned by laser. They possess several advantages such as switching speed, UV durability, customized appearance and transmission, and do not employ costly ITO, relative to the current smart windows technologies: electrochromic, suspended particles and liquid crystals.

Let’s get this smart glass commercialized. As regular readers know, I’m very interested in smart glass/windows and I would very much like to see the technology enter the marketplace. My most recent posting on smart windows was Sept. 7, 2011 about some research done by the  US Dept. of Energy.

ETA Sept. 22, 2011: There’s a Sept. 22, 2011 news item about Lamontagne’s smart glass on Nanowerk.