The Next Version of Gorilla Glass Will Help Your Phone Survive a Five-Foot Fall
Does it mean you can finally treat your smartphone like your beat up old sneakers? Definitely not, but it does mean you can be slightly less paranoid about your toys.
Does it mean you can finally treat your smartphone like your beat up old sneakers? Definitely not, but it does mean you can be slightly less paranoid about your toys.
A little bit of love for Pyrex, if you please.
CES 2015: The first external drive to be wrapped entirely in mirror-finish Gorilla Glass. So you'll spend as much time looking at yourself as you do looking at it.
Corning says its Gorilla Glass class of 2015 will save your phone by surviving 80 per cent of falls.
Fibre-optic thread that can glow any colour.
OK, that might be a bit of an overstatement – I still want my car to be made out of metal, just in case someone decides to drive into the side of me. But Corning’s second vision of a future world made of glass certainly looks awesome.
Gorilla Glass, especially version 2.0, has earned its reputation for durability and strength. But reputation only goes so far and Samsung wants something more. That's why Cornign and Samsung are joining forces to develop a newer, better, more scratch-resistant AMOLED screens.
Looks like Google's latest flagship Android phone is slightly less awesome than we thought it was -- no Corning Gorilla glass, just 'fortified glass'. Of course Samsung didn't actually speak about the glass originally, we just hoped-and-wished it was furnished in Gorilla. [Twitter via Phandroid via Android and Me via Engadget]
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