You'll go APE for our new Gorilla Glass 4, Corning reckons Corning has unveiled the fourth iteration of its Gorilla Glass – and claims the new see-through substance is twice as damage resistant as its previous version. It's also much better at surviving drops onto hard surfaces, apparently. Gorilla Glass version is used in the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy lines, plus shedloads of …
Aren't things that can survive a heavy pounding on the thick end of the drop, but if you snip or damage the tail end then the stress is released instantly and the while thing basically explodes in a shower of fragments?
So unless they're very careful in the design they may end up with "sweet spots" that if struck during a fall or impact will make the whole screen catastrophically and explosively shatter rather than just crack as most current phones seem to do (at least whenever I see some of the higher end phones people are using in day to day life, I'd swear more often than not the screens are cracked to some degree).
Hmm, yup - http://youtu.be/6V2eCFsDkK0
What happens when you bend it?
Regarding the vid; Jamie looked a little more reticent than Adam, as if he had been roped into the job. Also seeing those two in corporate suits reading an autocue badly in Jamie's case just looks like a naff Shopping Channel ad without the plastic smiles.
Can't help wondering; if the airbag doesn't fire hitting that new screen material is going to be worse than going through one of the old ones, I tried going through one in the '70s not recommended but better than stopping 'dead' from 40 MPH to 0 MPH it probably wouldn't hurt but you would only do it once!
you're not wearing a seatbelt and the airbag fires you're likely to die anyway.
Just you mean't
"you're not wearing a seatbelt and the airbag FAILS TO fire you're likely to die anyway."
It's one reason European airbags tend to be smaller than US ones is it is presumed you will be belted in, but they still offer good protection in a crash even if not wearing a belt.
Assuming you are doing more than 30mph, an airbag alone won't save you from potential lethal injury. If you don't believe me google it, there are a few youtube videos showing the result of no seatbelt + airbag, plus the odd article/paper on the subject. All airbags are designed to work in conjunction with a seatbelt, not as an alternative to wearing one.
Assuming you don't sustain a head injury, there's a high risk of neck, back and leg injury as you slide off your seat and into the footwell, something that's only made more likely because of the airbag.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEkV70Pl5c8
Both of them have been pretty up front that Jamie has never really been comfortable in front of a camera. He's gotten used to it on Mythbusters, but since this isn't being done by the same team he probably just feels awkward again. Adam on the other hand is constantly doing public speaking events and is much more comfortable learning lines like this. And frankly, as ads go, this is pretty in-line with the kind of stuff they do anyway, so at least the ad isn't out of character
Strained glass - dutch tears, duralex, etc is very difficult to break. I have dropped Duralex (which is another example of strained glass) plates and glasses onto a tiled kitchen floor floor plenty of times.
Nearly always the plate survives. Sometimes, it even manages to chip the tiles. However, once in a blue moon the strained glass will break. Trust me you do not want to be anywhere near when this happens. It is like a fragmentation grenade - sharp small shards fly out up to 5m in all directions.
Hmm... A phone with a strained glass screen. Why I do not feel comfortable with the idea of being near this when it is dropped...
>Trust me you do not want to be anywhere near when this happens. It is like a fragmentation grenade - sharp small shards fly out up to 5m in all directions.
Indeed that is the property the curiosities mentioned in the article demonstrate. Of the tadpole-shaped glass drops:
The very high residual stress within the drop gives rise to counter-intuitive properties, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer on the bulbous end without breaking but explosive disintegration if the tail end is even slightly damaged.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_Drop
Plastic was fine in the days before touchscreens, but as soon as you start requiring the user to touch, tap, swipe etc. the screen pretty much every time they want to do something with the phone then the higher resilience to scratching you get with glass becomes a very welcome property to have.
It's also worth remembering that back in the days of plastic, the underlying LCD still had a glass front panel, and it was only the protective lens/resistive touch digitiser in front of the LCD that was plastic. So although it was damn near impossible to break the plastic by dropping a handset, the same could sadly not be said of the LCD glass - the *only* phone I've broken was one of my older touchscreen devices, where the plastic resistive touchscreen remained intact after the drop that caused the LCD glass to crack quite impressively.
> You've taken corporate dick up the arse and now you are fucked.
Advertising a company that employs people in their home nation? As companies go, I haven't heard of Corning being 'evil'. Unless you have evidence that the duo were misleading viewers, I don't understand your issue.
1) The damage to the normal windscreen wasn't pretty but was fairly limited.
2) The damage to a Prince Rupert's drop is all or nothing.
3) If the inner layer of the new windscreen uses the same method to get its toughness, what happens when you wind up the size or speed of the ball bearing and break through the windscreen? Does the entire windscreen explode?
( I know that iPhone screens can be broken without exploding, so maybe it would be an anti-climax, but I'd like to see it demonstrated.)
If Transparent Aluminum can stop a 50Cal bullet, then it's got to be pretty good at resisting ground impacts. I would love to see if this would work well instead of all the glass being used.
http://dornob.com/transparent-aluminum-glass-like-see-through-metal/
http://makezine.com/2012/01/17/transparent-aluminum/
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