Transparent laptop screens

Yeah, it's a trick with setting your desktop to a picture of whatever is behind your screen. But it looks pretty cool, and apparently it really begins to feel to the user like your desktop is transparent and the stuff on your desktop is kind of floating in space. Here's the article about it.
Here are a bunch more pictures using the same method.
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I worked on getting it right way too long, it wasn't working out. My camera sucks a lot.
One of those "Why didn't someone figure this out years ago" head slappers.