Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry.
Various optical materials such as quartz, borosilicate glass and even sapphire were all successfully welded to metals like aluminium, titanium and stainless steel using the Heriot-Watt laser system, which provides very short, picosecond pulses of infrared light in tracks along the materials to fuse them together.
The new process could transform the manufacturing sector and have direct applications in the aerospace, defence, optical technology and even healthcare fields.
Now that iPhone will be welded shut.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday March 05 2019, @06:54AM (6 children)
Depends on how frustrated I am - in extreme, I might end using a jackhammer on that damn'd fucking bloody packaging, why the fuck can't they use a nomral carborad box, fickung IDIOTS!!!1!11one!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:22AM (5 children)
They sell a special tool for you, which easily opens any blister.
Wanna guess what it comes packaged in ?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:32AM (3 children)
Pictures or it didn't happen.
(hope you don't mean any pills blister)
(I already dread the answer - grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:18AM (2 children)
In video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIeCreCnq_8 [youtube.com]
On amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/ZipIt-Opener-Electric-Blister-Package/dp/B001QXOMWC [amazon.com]
And quite a few others, apparently, per a simple search.
Credit to their many competitors who didn't bless us with an overdose of irony, and use cardboard.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 05 2019, @11:03AM (1 child)
Thanks. The local Google (.au) didn't offer these when queried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by khallow on Tuesday March 05 2019, @01:14PM
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday March 06 2019, @03:39AM
My vote's for a solid block of Lucite.