Super-Thin ‘Gorilla Glass’ Could Help Your Smartphone Survive a 120 Pounds of Pressure Smashing
- Posted on January 10, 2012 at 7:04pm by
Liz Klimas
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Cracked smartphone or tablet screens could someday be a thing of the past. In fact, depending on the device you have, it may already be using an extremely strong version of glass. Corning’s first generation of Gorilla Glass, which can withstand more than 100 pounds of pressure, is topping the screens of some smartphones, tablets and televisions.
If your smartphone is not made with Gorilla Glass (full list of products featuring Gorilla Glass here), it’s likely it could end up like this:
(Photo via Phonedog.com)
(Photo via GadgetGrave.com)
(Photo via PhonesOnTV.com)
As if 1 mm thick Gorilla Glass, which can withstand about 120 pounds of pressure, wasn’t cool enough, Corning is showcasing its next generation of Gorilla Glass at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Gorilla Glass 2 is 20 percent thinner than the original version, coming in at 0.8mm according to Gizmodo, but still maintains the same resistance to pressure.
Watch a review of the glass including footage of the pressure test:
Want to see a version of the 0.8 mm Gorilla Glass survive a baseball traveling 50 mph? Take a look at this test in slow motion:
Corning states that the benefits of such a thin glass include increased touch sensitivity and more design flexibility in the ultra-thin device market. According to Gizmodo, no products on the market have been made with Gorilla Glass 2 yet but “you can be sure even more anorexic thin gadgets are on their way.”
“We knew Corning Gorilla Glass could get even better. So, in response to our customers’ drive toward thinner form factors, we designed this new glass to enable meaningful reduction in thickness without sacrificing the outstanding glass performance for which Gorilla Glass has become highly recognized. This glass, along with Windows operating system innovations from Microsoft, will help deliver exceptional beauty, performance, and toughness for new Windows PCs. You will see this early this year with Windows-based PCs which we expect to be the first in-market laptops designed to leverage the performance of our new second-generation glass,” James Steiner, senior vice president and general manager, Corning Specialty Materials,remarked in a press release.
Here‘s a final example of Gorilla Glass 1’s strength demonstrated with a four pound metal ball dropped from a meter high:
Correction: We originally referred to Corning’s Gorilla Glass as also the maker of Gorilla Glue. This is not the case. Gorilla Glue is the property of The Gorilla Glue Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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jetbd68
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:46pmTruth be told, Corning actually invented this glass back in 1962. They couldn’t find a market for it, so it just sat on the shelf until now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38475126/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/gorilla-glass-may-be-new-face-touch-screen-tablets-high-end-tvs/#.Tw5Wvux95I4
Report Post »drmda
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 8:51pmAbout that…..
Read this FAQ at the bottom of the page.
http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/faqs/all
Report Post »supermansdad
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:41pmLet me get this straight. This is a tech article yet the Occupy Ron Paul people are making it out to be about him?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:46pmYes. Several articles are the same way. It’s beyond annoying.
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:04pmMy son could have used about a half dozen of these over the years! I don’t know how he destroys them quickly.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:19pmAre you buying those phones for him? If so, make him pay for them himself – bet he will then take better care of them.
Report Post »OllieK
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 11:13amAwesome product. Time to buy some stock in Corning. Why don’t Apple iPhones have this????
Report Post »Unalienable Rights
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:02pmIPhones and iPads do use Gorilla Glass.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:08amGorilla Glass is not related in any way to Gorilla Glue, despite what it says in the first sentence of this article.
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:38pmYup. I couldn’t find any link between the two companies.
Report Post »TROONORTH
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:02amRon Paul is a foolish, dangerous old clown. He wants to return the United States to 1938.
Report Post »desertspeaks
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:31pmshill
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 6:17amAccording to Hussein Obama this new glass is going to put thousands of people who replace broken glass out of business…so they better just stop it right now!
Report Post »mchurchwell
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 9:03amNice :).
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 5:28amMy Kindle Fire is made with Gorilla Glass. I let my 3 yr. old play with it and I seriously have no worries.
I love the picture of the cracked phones though. My sister had that happen to her phone. I just thought it was an app.
Report Post »HellAndBack
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 4:52amI would like to get this glass as a car coating for my new company car… I work at Knight Industries. LOL cool product.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:52pmNice to know, that all those hot girls that keep their phones stuffed in the back pocket of their tight, low-riders, won’t have their screens break……Hey, I only looked, because I was concerned about the safety of their phones!!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 4:50am@tx… LOL
Report Post »Used to be all us guys had Skoal circles, permanently worn on our pockets.
Now the ladies have the Gorilla rectangle! LOL
Like you, I was only concerned for their safety.
TXPilot
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:31am@TOMFERRARI…..The world needs more concerned citizens like you.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:36pmRon Paul is a clown.
Report Post »kconservative
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:53pmDidnt take long for Beck to revert back to his 2008 ways, and start schilling for Romney. Sorry, But Romney wont overturn the NDAA, Romney wont stop SOPA, Romney wont stop the new EX Patritization Act… Romney wont end the FED, Romney wont end our world policing. Romney is just more of the Same, and judging by everyones lack of enthusiasm for him… I would say they all know its true. Thats why I invite everyone to do what BECK and crew need to do. GET BACK TO OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES.. DOES THAT RING A BELL GLENN. Only one candidate was against Tarp, talks of Liberty, and our founding Priciples. As far as Iran Goes, He says if congress sends us to war then we go to war., but also he would allow Isreal to do what it needs to do in the region. Time to stand for your principles. You elect Romney we will have even less rights then we do now by time his administration is over.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:00amRon Paul in 2012. People are waking up and realizing we can get our Constitutional rights that have been chipped away at ever since that fake named “Patriot Act” this is anything but patriotic. The media doesn‘t like Paul nor the Republican establishment because they know Paul isn’t a phoney politician like Bill Clinton. They know he will do the stuff he says he will do. Paul isn’t a sellout. America can’t afford to keep these endless wars going on forever and shipping money to other countries to buy their friendship. Ron Paul is a man of his word and that‘s something fresh in today’s world.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 1:35amGoodstuff. Cuba is calling.
Report Post »Ron paul 2012
Jaycen
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:48pmGood lord, you guys are crazier than your messiah.
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