But the reflective glass skin is the sort of thing you see everywhere.

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About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).

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E-Town, it has the sweeping asphalt vistas of a suburban office park, around blocks of reflective-glass buildings, occupied by Nokia, Bosch, and other corporations.

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In the Specialty Materials segment, Corning anticipates fourth-quarter sales declines of about 15%, reflective across all product lines ncluding Gorilla Glass.

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"A piece of glass can be both transparent and reflective at the same time, depending on how it's situated relative to the audience, " said Mr. Steinmeyer, pointing out the secret.

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The top mirror, made up of a stack of thin, partially reflective films, is attached to a plate of glass that forms the front of the display.

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In the new design, the cover glass is fully laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a high-precision plasma deposition process.

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