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I suspect they will never feel very nice because they can't be glass. Any ideas on how to solve that?
by etaioinshrdlu 8y ago
I suspect they will never feel very nice because they can't be glass.
Any ideas on how to solve that?
- cimmanom 8y agoI thought Apple and Gorilla were working on foldable glass screens (though what that means I have no idea).
- Someone 8y agoThere’s no reason it can’t be glass. Glass can be made highly flexible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_radius#Fiber_optics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_radius#Fiber_optics says a bend radius of 15 times the diameter of the glass typically is a safe assumption. That factor 15 doesn’t directly apply to plates of glass, and still might give too high a radius, but this is a hotly researched field. For nice demos, look at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12OSBJwogFc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12OSBJwogFc (And of course, there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass, invented about 2,000 years ago.
- etaioinshrdlu 8y agoI find that kind of hard to believe based on experience. I suspect a .3mm sheet of glass could make a bend radius of maybe 500mm, not 4.5mm. The numbers just feel way off. I suspect glass that can safely fold with a 5mm bend radius would be extremely thin and fragile.