DIY Privacy Display - Recycle your monitors in a badass way 

Imagine actually doing this in public, and then someone pulls out their own polarizing glasses and watches

do this to my laptop so that I can browse the Internet at some café and everyone thinks I'm a psychopath laughing at blank screen

The inverter isn't dead. The CCFLs are and it's detecting incorrect voltage drop and shutting down to prevent damage. Or some of the solvent leaked into the HV wiring.

I keep a pair of polarized glasses in my car in case I ever see someone in a cafe or library etc doing this so I can walk behind them and comment on what is on their screen.

Watching a blank screen with people around you is totally not suspicious

Now how do I remove my body's polarising filter so nobody can see me without glasses.

i think drowning that shit in goo-gone deff had something to do with that monitore dying lmaooo. it was literally pouring out the backside

I got this video in recommended after "why I don't watch anime in public"

~~Monitor has liquid dripping out the back.~~ "What we need to do is plug this in!" Might have somethin to do with why the thing stopped working...

are you sure you didnt kill the screen with all that goo b gone dripping out the back?

Real video title: How many times can you use "super" in a sentence?

Mom: he must be having a fun time with those glasses, he can't stop smiling Kid: *_O H Y E A H P U T T H A T I N!!!_*

Contact lenses. - Now that's where the game really is.

Super, cool video.. imma super try it with some super old monitors that i super have on my super old basement, ill later super tweet the super results.

Privacy Display: *Exists* Me: ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)

"I don't even see the code anymore. I just see blonde, brunette, redhead..." -LTT staff probably

Probably got cleaning solution all over the internals and shorted something out

It would be my guess that some of the solvent might have caused the monitor to go bad.

i found a way to do it on my laptop and im getting wierd looks when i use it in a public place....

"when you enter the first time, things are going to be messy, but once you start going, everything is going to get easier" -Luke

Anyone interested how this works: The LCD has the following parts (in order from front to back): vertical polarizer, glass substrate electrode, liquid crystal, another glass substrate electrode, horizontal polarizer and the backlight (white fluorescent tubes or LEDs). This is how an LCD works: First, light coming from the tubes or LEDs are polarized horizontally by the horizontal polarizer, and then it passes through the glass substrate and then to the liquid crystals (which will do something magical as I will discuss later), passes to another glass substrate and then to a vertical polarizer. Now, since light has been horizontally polarized by the first polarizer from the back, there should be no light that will pass through the vertical polarizer. Now, remember the liquid crystal? The liquid crystals bend light from 0 to 90 degrees (black to full white, respectively) depending on the voltage applied from the glass substrates (which sandwiches the crystals), the substrate contains individual shapes that defines a pixel. If the crystal bends light to a 90 degrees, the subpixel (R, G or B) will be illuminated to the fullest, if the crystal doesn't bend the light (0 degrees) it will just be black. In other words, the angle determines the intensity of the light. Removing the vertical polarizer will allow any orientation of light to pass through at the front end, which is why you'll see white. With a properly oriented polarizer, you can again filter only the vertically-oriented light to pass through.

He legit said super 6 times in like 10 seconds

Dad: help my kid is stairng at a white screen what drug does that?

Wouldn't the liquid seeping through the back be the cause of the inverter dying? lol

Luke, think you could try this again but with an Asus gaming laptop?

banks needs to use this for their computers

This is how I found this channel, and I thought he was Linus haha!

"the inverter died at some point" Bruh you filled the damn case with goo gone and plugged it in

Great one, gonna do this on my CRT!

"Shit, I lost my glasses"

yeah definitely cut towards myself too many times and ended up with three stitches one time. dont do it kids! plan your cuts before you pick up the knife!

Best tool I've found for separating case halves without unsightly damage, and a tool I still keep in my tool box today is a cake frosting spreader, very flexible, flat and a bit longer to help reach those deeper clips, just never twist the blade, slip it in and slowly slide it along the case halves.

I understand that this is not a free thing to do but for a channel with over 2M subscribers I think it is feasible to redo the video with a different monitor that actually worked in the end. Now this was just like "hey see, it worked! for a second.. but it worked!" - kind of embarrassing.. I mean it doesn't have to be a 4K 30" Monitor or something, but a stupid old monitor from craigslist (like Luke mentioned) would have been only a few dollars probably.

how to hide your porn v.2

"Luke, you're fired! (Again)" XD THE INTRO

me: watches this video me: looks at my pc my pc: OH $H!T

For those who try this, you might need to remove the anti glare layer on the filter to get clear visibility

Just imagine you thought its working and you are watching your fishy stuff on the monitor but actually its not working and visible to everyone. That embarrassment!

That one small cut equals LOTS OF PAPERWORK FOR LINUS

5:35 Hair dryer or heat gun on low setting may help to loosen the glue.

*loses glasses

what if I use a polarised pair of contact lenses

*Talks about the super clean cuts he made* Polarising filter: *Breaks immediately*

This is amazing. I don't think I would ever have a need for it, but it is really cool.

So what's your favorite adjective?

Just buy an ikea tv so you'll need to build it instead of breaking yours

Wow, you guys really have made a lot of progress in your video quality. That being said, this is still pretty cool.

Perfect! My school just got rid of a bunch of old monitors that they updated and let us take them. I grabbed three of them as backups, and now I have some monitors I can test on! Excited giggling tee-hee-hee-heeee!

Take a shot each time Luke says "super."

Someone help me! I have a 4K 32 inch monitor So will this work on my cat

And now for this video's sponsor: the word super

on some older monitors from around 2005 come apart and separate into layers with no glue recommended on one of those old monitors so there is no risk of slicing the LCD or LED panel

Lesson learned from this video: Always keep your monitor away from Luke

Take a shot everytime he says "super"

"When you enter the first time with your chisel it's probably gonna be a little bit messy" LukeSexTips

hey Luke its been while, always look forward to your videos.

Slap yourself every time he says super

*Cuts himself* "I was just about to say cut away from yourself" *Keeps cutting towards himself* ???

I love these DIY vids they make haveing a channel so much better

I died when you realized you went toooo cheap. 😂😂Still awesome that you worked till the end. 👌🏾🔥🔥

Opening the bezel is like trying to open my otterbox defender case 😂😂😂

so thats how you hide porn

Even 7 years later, this is very helpful!

Nail polish remover (acetone) works waaaaaaayyyyyy better than isopropyl alcohol to remove the glue

so if my mom's coming I can just leave the porn up, thumbs up.

your inverter burned because your solvent went inside it

my gateway did similar, it was crappy capacitors, were pretty easy to change goodwill also has cheap monitors

Love the monstercat music in the background, very nostalgic.

'When you enter the first time with your chisel it's probably going to be a little bit messy, but once you start going everything does get easier' Not sure if that was intentional or sex joke 😂

I think I know whyb your inverter died. (THERE WAS LIQUID COMIN OUTTA THE BACK!)

Kudos tto you for trying out a thing, not everything going as expected and still uploading the process. MUCH more realistic and close to what other people would experience

Bruspup for the win! Did this quite a few years ago, lucky it went good all the first time around 😊

This is pretty freaking useful in a lot of stuff. I'd personally use it on a laptop to avoid classmates copying my work. But other people might use this as a way to avoid their teacher seeing them browsing the web. It can also be useful as hell in places like banks and such. Damn this is gold!

I'm loving these videos, seems like Luke is being given more freedom, not to say he wasn't before but it seems like he's doing more videos that cater more towards him now. This is great :)

This video was so satisfying

You could also take the remaining polarizing sheet, stick it to a piece of plexi or lexan, mount it and be able to switch back and forth between private and regular. Could potentially add some nice diy are gee bee hues this way too

As a senior Service Tech in a computer shop, I'll give my advice: 1. It's usually easier to separate bezels from the inside out. Apply even pressure from screen side of the bezel. 2. It's never a good idea to twist your prying tool. That will ALWAYS lead to marred plastic

Thank you very much for bringing your experience to the table. I have an old dell monitor that this would be a perfect experiment for.

I assume some companies would give the option to have the filter already removed.

i replaced the polarised sheet with my glasses lens so is it good for your eye looking at the screen

Surprised how perfectly that works.

I was super happy because this can super help to hide super adult videos and so i wouldn't get in super trouble. Do you super get me?

11:43 I think it was coz of the goo remover dripping in the back vents on the display! Maybe??

Could this work with a phone?

we need a "super" counter in your videos. final count: 240,000 spm (supers per minute)

You should try scalpels for this since they are much more sharp

Actually I think what happened was some of your Goo gone soaked in and shorted out either some of the LEDs or one of the CCFLs on the top or bottom of the screen. If one shorts out and the board detects not enough voltage being used for the lights it will perform exactly like that. Definitely don’t pour liquid on the screen 😬 it’s also not impossible to buy new CCFLs...

Everybody talking about them hiding porn, but have they actually done it?

Shit i'm early, let me think of a joke... Apple! *Everyone laughs*

So cool. Must use a wide paint stripper/spatula.

I love that you guys love Monstercat.

how many times can he say "super" before it gets annoying ?

"When you go in the first time it's pretty messy. But don't worry, the farther you go the easier it gets." -Luke

Wait, that's my fricking monitor which I am watching this video in this very moment lmao. Glad to know it's quality enough for LTT

It's great to have a home network, and I think it's the best thing you can do on a budget.

Your ineptitude is amazing!

3 more tools to add: 1. Goo be gone (obvious) 2. An X-ACTO knife to cut screen 3. Heat gun for the glue.

"Huh? son why are you cutting our monitor?" "Too see p*rn infront of you guys..." Homeless now!

That blank stare at the beginning of the video

"Everyones gonna yell at me for cutting towards myself" We all do it, we all don't care, but we all yell at eachother for it lol