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Perhaps it might make a good ruggedization material? Apple appears to be highly interested in materials that would make a portable product have a very long life
by elblanco 16y ago
Perhaps it might make a good ruggedization material? Apple appears to be highly interested in materials that would make a portable product have a very long life in your pocket (gorilla glass).
- nitrogen 16y agoThey say in the video that it's a "metallic glass." I wonder if they figured out a way to make it transparent, or maybe it can be used to turn the entire surface of the device into a capacitive touch interface, on top of being insanely strong and elastic. I wonder if they (LiquidMetal) made any baseball bats in addition to their golf clubs...
- Buckley 16y agoBut there's one important question: will it blend?
- marvin 16y agoThe "metallic glass" name has nothing to do with transparency; the reason it gets this name is that its atomic structure is identical to that of a glass. The atoms in glass, liquidmetal and for that matter liquids, are not arranged in a regular ordering like most solids are. They have an amorpheous structure, where the atoms are "frozen" in a random network.