Best web explanation (meaning, people giving semi-qualified answers on yahoo answers) suggests the adhesive on the tape fills the tiny gaps in the frosted glass, making the end of the glass smooth, and thus allowing light to exit without being refracted in all directions.

Anyway, I'm definitely trying this at work.

Hm, my shower is made of frosted glass ...

I know I'll be punished for it, but it's too damn tempting. Tomorrow morning, when my girlfriend is taking a shower, I'll sneak in, apply a face-sized smilie made of scotch tape and enjoy it while it lasts.

Exactly Demon_ix, and for the same reason oil or clear grease (like vasaline) will work too, water works but runs off and evaporates, pretty much anything that's clear and will smooth out the surface of the glass will make it more transparent.

*howto

Adding video to channels (Howto) - requested by Eklek.

That must be single-frosted-sided glass.

When I was a kid we'd use a hole punch and turn single-frosted-sided glass into double-frosted-sided glass.

>> ^radx:
Hm, my shower is made of frosted glass ...
I know I'll be punished for it, but it's too damn tempting. Tomorrow morning, when my girlfriend is taking a shower, I'll sneak in, apply a face-sized smilie made of scotch tape and enjoy it while it lasts.


Sift us a video of your results.
We can overlook the self-link.

>> ^radx:
Hm, my shower is made of frosted glass ...
I know I'll be punished for it, but it's too damn tempting. Tomorrow morning, when my girlfriend is taking a shower, I'll sneak in, apply a face-sized smilie made of scotch tape and enjoy it while it lasts.


I take it your gf isn't showing you the goods.

This doesn't work on Frosted Flakes.

Zifnab-"So where I work I have about a 12" frosted glass barrier on top of my counter for privacy reasons. I found out today that a simple piece of scotch tape will make the opaque glass clear? It was quite strange."





I lol'd picturing the boredom and chain of events needed to discover this at work.

>> ^Buck:
Zifnab-"So where I work I have about a 12" frosted glass barrier on top of my counter for privacy reasons. I found out today that a simple piece of scotch tape will make the opaque glass clear? It was quite strange."
I lol'd picturing the boredom and chain of events needed to discover this at work.


That's what was on the YouTube vid, I had similar thoughts when I read it as well.

More fun when it's not your GF...

>> ^radx:
Hm, my shower is made of frosted glass ...
I know I'll be punished for it, but it's too damn tempting. Tomorrow morning, when my girlfriend is taking a shower, I'll sneak in, apply a face-sized smilie made of scotch tape and enjoy it while it lasts.

I'm guessing this doesn't work the other way around (meaning people on the other side can't see through as well).

If so, the national security implications are enormous!

>> ^gwiz665:
More fun when it's not your GF...


Are you trying to hint that you have a frosted glass shower? Thanks, but... we all just ran out of scotch tape.

^ lmfao

You'd need to apply the tape to the frosted side of the glass. On a shower, the side that faces the shower is usually the frosted side, and the other side is smooth. Good luck being sneaky.

Yeah, I could have used that information about an hour ago. Instead, I was outside the shower, first giggling with a shit-eating grin, then quietly cursing after applying the tape without results, then cursing a lot more after being hit with a bottle of shower gel on the head.

Failure on my part yet again

I remember reading about this trick in a kid's spy book about 25 years ago. Never got around to trying it, so cool to see that the author wasn't making it up =)

>> ^gwiz665:
More fun when it's not your GF...
>> ^radx:
Hm, my shower is made of frosted glass ...
I know I'll be punished for it, but it's too damn tempting. Tomorrow morning, when my girlfriend is taking a shower, I'll sneak in, apply a face-sized smilie made of scotch tape and enjoy it while it lasts.


*ahem*
http://blog.videosift.com/gwiz665/Alright-enough-is-enough

I'm just playing my part in the masquerade of the damned.

Are you somehow hinting that you would not want to see my huge chapped white ass through transparent glass? Weirdo...

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^gwiz665:
More fun when it's not your GF...

Are you trying to hint that you have a frosted glass shower? Thanks, but... we all just ran out of scotch tape.

First off, that my friend, is 3m tape... and all though 3m makes scotch tape, a rectangle is not always a square. BITCH.
Secondly, don't you have a job to do? one that doesn't involve jeopardizing your only protection from prying eyes?

wha? 140 votes?

U know how you blow on glass and then draw a penis? same principle. It works cos of peni