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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 24 2016, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the shattering-news dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

You'll soon be able to drop your phone from selfie level worry-free with a little help from Corning. The glass company presented the fifth iteration of its super-resistant Gorilla Glass at an event at its offices in Palo Alto, California.

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The previous version of the glass could survive a drop at about pocket level or below on a rough surface, but with 63 percent of drops occurring between waist and shoulder height, according to Corning, the goal was to increase the total fall distance that a Gorilla Glass-topped phone could withstand.

Gorilla Glass 5 promises to brush off drops of up to 1.6 meters (5 feet, 2 inches) based on Corning's tests, making it almost four times more resistant than regular, unstrengthened glass, the company says.

About 4.5 billion of the world's phones use Gorilla Glass on their displays, and you'll find the topper expanding beyond these pocket-size devices. This year, Ford announced that the 2016 GT model will have Gorilla Glass windshields. Some ATMs will even sport an antimicrobial version of Gorilla Glass on their displays.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Techwolf on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:09PM

    by Techwolf (87) on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:09PM (#379494)

    All the phone makers just need to add 1 mm of gap between the case and the edge of the glass. Fill it with rubber if you don't want that gap to get dirty. That is all that is need to protect the glass from breaking. When dropped, the edge of the case hits the ground and deforms a bit from the shock, then either rebounds or perm deforms a bit smaller. But due to no gap to absorb this deform, the glass breaks due to not having any ecclesiastically at all.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:25PM (#379517)

    due to not having any ecclesiastically at all

    Lack of going to church has never killed a soul...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @02:48AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @02:48AM (#379630)

      How about during the Inquisition? (middle ages, Catholics)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @03:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @03:59AM (#379645)
      To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. --Ecclesiastes 3:1.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @05:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @05:10PM (#379915)

    What you say sounds reasonable, but it can't be true. Which do you think is most likely:

    1) There is a vast conspiracy [xkcd.com] keeping this technology out of the hands of consumer goods, despite the fact that there is obvious research going into break-resistant phones and the obvious market share a company would earn for providing such a product.
    2) There are a lot of really smart engineers and scientists who are paid a lot, but just haven't figured out this one simple trick which you discovered which would revolutionize the industry [xkcd.com].

    Conspiracies do happen, and revolutionary ideas do occur. However, in my opinion, it's more likely that the problem "is a lot harder than that."