Next-Gen Gorilla Glass: Smartphones Could Have Antibacterial, Anti-Glare Display 175
MojoKid writes "It's not too often that upcoming glass technology is worth getting excited over, but leave it to Corning to pique our interest. During a recent talk at MIT's Mobile Technology Summit, Dr. Jeffrey Evenson took to the stage to reiterate what it is about Gorilla Glass that makes it such an attractive product (something well evidenced given the majority of smartphones out there today implement it), as well as to give us a preview of what's coming. Having pretty much mastered Gorilla Glass where strength, scratch-resistance and general durability are concerned, the company is now looking to improve-upon it (possibly for Gorilla Glass 4) by making it non-reflective and germ-resistant. Imagine your smartphone sporting this — you'd finally be able to see the screen regardless of how bright the sun behind you is. Unfortunately, it appears that it won't be hitting our phones or tablets that soon. The estimate is 'in the next two years.'"
Anti-Glare (Score:4, Funny)
That'll stop people glaring at me when my phone rings during the pianissimo of Haydns Surprise Symphony.
But what about the telephone cleaners? (Score:4, Funny)
What are we going to do with them now?
Re:How about (Score:4, Funny)
The losses to the mobile phone industry if that invention was released would be incalculable.
It would be like creating regenerative cars or eternal batteries.
Re:Next step (Score:5, Funny)
Why use a mirror when you can capture an image with your front-facing camera, digitise it, route it through state-of-the-art computing and image processing trips, break it into millions of pieces and feed it simultaneous to an equal number of tiny diodes.
So much simpler!
Kids these days... Don't you realize that you can just scan a mirror and set that as your background?