Mobile computing equipment are the norm. They are the new necessity to become connected. It's as commonplace as having a television, radio or calculator. Hold on! Almost all phones now have calculators. Part of this new norm for these devices include a few accidents. When I dropped my cell phone, before it hit the ground I was already contemplating how much it would cost to replace. However, to my amazement the smartphone's glass display wasn't shattered. I realized there had to be something exceptional about the material in the screen cover. As it so happens, it's made from a material called Gorilla Glass developed by Corning.
Today's cell phones, tablets and laptops take a beating. While being shuffled around during the course of our daily lives we require the screens to be crystal clear, resists scratches and not shatter from drops, bumps and mishaps. It should likewise be thin and light-weight. Corning's Gorilla Glass accomplishes this.
Gorilla Glass is made of an alkali-aluminosilicate. It is about thirty times harder than plasti, nearly as hard as sapphire crystals and not quite as hard as diamond, but very close. In addition it has a the ability to resist fracturing from an existing crack or chip.
Gorilla glass can be manufactured to be as thin as 0.5 mm. This makes it a perfect cover for touch screens. Because the material can be built to be thin it can transfer the pressure or change in electrical current, with respect to the technology used by the smartphone designer.
On January 9, 2012 Corning announced Gorilla Glass 2. This next generation glass can be made 20% thinner and keep the same robustness as its predecessor. Corning has made available on their website 2 videos demonstrating the strength and ruggedness of Gorilla Glass. In the 1st video a 4.0 Lbs ball is dropped from a height of about 3 feet onto a 1mm thick piece of glass. In the 2nd video a baseball is launched at 50 MPH at an 0.8mm sheet of Gorilla Glass. Naturally in both cases the sheet of glass doesn't break. Amazing!
A number of the Android and Windows tablets are currently using Gorilla Glass. These include but are not limited to: Acer Iconia Tab, Iconia Smart, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity; Motorola Xoom, Xoom2 and XYBOARD and Samsung Galaxy Note.
Today's cell phones, tablets and laptops take a beating. While being shuffled around during the course of our daily lives we require the screens to be crystal clear, resists scratches and not shatter from drops, bumps and mishaps. It should likewise be thin and light-weight. Corning's Gorilla Glass accomplishes this.
Gorilla Glass is made of an alkali-aluminosilicate. It is about thirty times harder than plasti, nearly as hard as sapphire crystals and not quite as hard as diamond, but very close. In addition it has a the ability to resist fracturing from an existing crack or chip.
Gorilla glass can be manufactured to be as thin as 0.5 mm. This makes it a perfect cover for touch screens. Because the material can be built to be thin it can transfer the pressure or change in electrical current, with respect to the technology used by the smartphone designer.
On January 9, 2012 Corning announced Gorilla Glass 2. This next generation glass can be made 20% thinner and keep the same robustness as its predecessor. Corning has made available on their website 2 videos demonstrating the strength and ruggedness of Gorilla Glass. In the 1st video a 4.0 Lbs ball is dropped from a height of about 3 feet onto a 1mm thick piece of glass. In the 2nd video a baseball is launched at 50 MPH at an 0.8mm sheet of Gorilla Glass. Naturally in both cases the sheet of glass doesn't break. Amazing!
A number of the Android and Windows tablets are currently using Gorilla Glass. These include but are not limited to: Acer Iconia Tab, Iconia Smart, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity; Motorola Xoom, Xoom2 and XYBOARD and Samsung Galaxy Note.
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