transparent cardboard boxes

[roid]

you know what would be cool?

Transparent Cardboard Boxes.

Transparent plastic boxes are handy as you can see into them. Cardboard boxes are handy coz they're made outof a common cheap renewable material (paper).
Combine the 2, somehow....

what viable biological materials are transparent?

[Isaac]

Screw that. Transparent metal ftw.

[Avder]

Here in America weve got these things called storage bins...and clear plastic is one of the colors available...

[Heretic]

Screw that. Transparent metal ftw.

Transparent Aluminium

[Isaac]

Wow. Is that future of small fishing boats?

[Xamindar]

Screw that. Transparent metal ftw.

Transparent Aluminium

Someones been watching too much Star Trek.

[Heretic]

Guess you haven't clicked on the link. Didn't have anything to do with humpback whales.

[Xamindar]

Whoosh!~~~~~

It was a joke.

[roid]

heyheyhey look what i found

Transparent paper

transparent paper on left, normal paper on right.

(link broken, new link: http://www.nature.com/am/journal/2009/2 ... 9122a.html )

We cannot see through ordinary paper because it’s constituent micrometer sized cellulose fibers and large cavities scatter light, which makes paper opaque. Now, Nogi and colleagues1 have developed transparent paper. Using cellulose—as in normal paper—and downsizing the fibers using a simple processing technique, they produced ‘transparent paper’ which, unlike many transparent plastics, does not expand significantly on heating

It's made from the same stuff as normal paper, cellulose (ie: wood pulp).

awe~~~some

[Alter-Fox]

Cell walls from trees . Only plants have cellulose.
Cool find though.