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By making the Gorilla Glass, Corning has basically made the comparison “brittle like glass” obsolete, but the company wants to go forward and promote newer and better types of glass until it manages to meet its financial goals and, perhaps, even go past them. A few days ago, we posted about Corning'... |
6 February 2012
04:10 GMT |
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There was a time when comparing something to glass meant that the thing/being in question was very fragile.
With Gorilla Glass, and Gorilla Glass 2, Corning has already shown just how far from brittle glass can be.
Now, the company has released a pair of videos in which it shows how many uses it envisions for glass... |
4 February 2012
05:53 GMT |
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A collaboration of German experts from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-PR), in Mainz, and the Technical University Darmstadt (TUD) announces the development of a transparent superamphiphobic coating made of glass, a material that repels both water and oil.
With it, experts hope to be able to crea... |
8 December 2011
06:29 GMT |
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It so happens that boneless robots (not that robots even have bones in the strictest sense, but still) aren't the only leap towards the future, not with the Kickstarter project up and running.
The Kickstarter project that engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Jason Giddings has set up is called Multi-Touch Keyboa... |
29 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is working in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to support an ingenious recycling competition entitled “New Uses for Recycled Glass.” Both organizations are encouraging participants to come up with innovative methods of reusing or recycling ... |
29 November 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Nippon Electrical Glass Co LTD, a company from Japan, may have just answered the prayers of consumers and corporations alike by inventing its new glass substrate.
The big problem that LCDs, and most every other display technology out there, ever had and still have is that they don't get along with bright light... |
1 November 2011
05:46 GMT |
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One might think that inventing a new display material wouldn't be such a big deal, but Corning made it a big deal once and, now, did it a second time.
Corning made an official announcement in which it reveals that it invented a new type of glass that will have more than one benefit when used in displays.
Liqu... |
26 October 2011
09:56 GMT |
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Sugar proved its complexity once again, demonstrating that it can do more than just satisfying our cravings for sweet things.
A very inspirational conference highlighted creative moments which celebrated the junction between sugar and glass. Who would have thought about actual sugar lamps before?
Chef Albert Adri&... |
20 October 2011
07:30 GMT |
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A technology originally developed for use in outer space is currently being used to create new energy-saving windows and insulating glass. This is possible through the use of a new sensors, which space agencies use to measure the number of oxygen atoms in the proximity of space vehicles.
But experts had the idea o... |
3 May 2011
02:32 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the United States announces the development of a new type of metallic glass that is tremendously damage-tolerant, and which is stronger and tougher than any other material.In fact, it would appear that stuff is stronger than steel as well. What is even more interesting is that versions of t... |
10 January 2011
11:08 GMT |
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A new technology originally developed for the space industry has now made its way to the commercial sector. It allows for objects made of glass to be inscribed with tracking numbers without leaving any marks or cracks on their surface. Keeping an eye on how glass art objects and other items exchange owners and move a... |
24 November 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Today, centuries after it first entered use, most of us take glass for granted. We view it as the common material that makes up our windows and computer/TV screens, and seldom give it a second thought. But Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) professor and glass science pioneer Minoru Tomozawa sees things different... |
3 August 2010
03:50 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor announces the creation of the world's smallest pump. The minute device is no larger than a human red blood cell, but it can function fairly effectively, when considering its size. The power supply for this instrument is ensured by an electrode th... |
17 May 2010
04:09 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the Duke University has recently been able to develop a new method for preserving proteins, which relies on the small molecules being turned into glass. The investigators in the group say that the approach guarantees that the properties the proteins have upon being turned to glass are maint... |
18 March 2010
07:21 GMT |
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Scientists have recently developed a new type of material that could in the near future lead to an entirely new paradigm shift in the way we choose to protect various sensitive equipment, objects and environments. Spray-on glass is a substance that, when applied to something, creates a very thin protective layer, tha... |
16 February 2010
15:51 GMT |
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A “source” the Mac Observer considers trustworthy has leaked the first picture of what looks like the front glass panel presumably employed by Apple’s forthcoming tablet PC. The hardware features a seam where the tablet’s speaker would be located, and two holes - a small one for a web cam, and... |
12 January 2010
11:02 GMT |
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Scientists were recently able to create a new method of producing glass nanofibers, one that relies on technology known as “laser spinning”. The group, made up of researchers from the University of Vigo, the Rutgers University, in the United States, and the Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, ... |
19 December 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Crystallization is the name given to the process that sees the transformation of a solution, melt or gas into solid crystals, through precipitation. The phenomenon takes place relatively slow when compared to other types of chemical reactions, and scientists have recently discovered one of the reasons for that. It wo... |
21 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Diatoms represent one of the most important groups of eukaryotic algae and they are mostly unicellular phytoplankton. The organisms, which live in the world's seas and oceans, are responsible for producing about 25 percent of the total amounts of oxygen in the world, yet little is known about their very structur... |
19 October 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Washington have recently announced that they have managed to develop a technique that allows them to print glass objects with a conventional 3D printer. The accomplishment, which comes one year after the same team showed that ceramics could be printed in the same manner, is similar to ... |
25 September 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) have recently announced the creation of a new type of blast-resistant glass, which they advertise as being much more efficient in absorbing and reducing the impact strength of explosions than the existing varieties already on the market. The new material will als... |
11 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Titanium is best known for being one of the toughest materials out there, but no one could have imagined that it would end up being used to replace glass, in applications that demand strong and transparent materials. The zirconium chemical element will also be used together with titanium, and will eventually replace ... |
18 March 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Using the glass trackpad on the new MacBook family may seem easy for some, but not everyone has used a Mac before. For those people, Apple has posted a new knowledge base article detailing the proper use of the trackpad on new MacBook models.The new smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad on the MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum,... |
23 February 2009
06:44 GMT |
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What Apple touted as an innovative feature of the new MacBook line, the button-free glass trackpad, has proven to be the source of numerous disappointments regarding the new line of notebooks. While Apple was coy about admitting the issues at first, reliable sources indicate that the company is now responding to the ... |
5 November 2008
06:42 GMT |
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Whoever said that a bottle gets you closer to Nirvana was definitely wrong. Over a million of them might do the trick, though. At least, that's what monks from a temple in Thailand think. The temple's real name is Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, but it is better known to locals and visitors from abroad by a m... |
29 October 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Although, unlike plastic, glass is spared the environmentalists' finger pointing to it as a polluting material, the process of its creation is not as friendly.Obviously, when opening a bottle of wine, one might possibly be concerned by the prospects of a terrible hangover rather than the impact that the creation... |
3 October 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Some people, even today, call this type of material bulletproof glass. The fact is that it is anything but bulletproof. By definition, this special type of glass is able to resist one or more rounds shot from a firearm before losing the properties that allow it to stop bullets. Its primary objective is not even to st... |
15 July 2008
08:57 GMT |
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At least three new Apple Retail Stores are reported to open their doors soon, one of which is Canada's sixth, opening this Saturday. Up next are the Beijing Store, opening on July 19th, and (although not necessarily the next after) a Honolulu Store which has just received its glass facade.Canada Store"Apple'... |
3 July 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Traditional glass mirrors used in telescope manufacturing are very expensive and extremely hard to build, not to mention that they weigh a 'ton' and are incredibly difficult to maneuver. And then there's always the risk that once completed, they may not turn out to be perfect for the job (remember Hubb... |
2 June 2008
06:31 GMT |
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A one-way mirror is basically just like any other mirror, just that it has the ability of reflecting light on one side while on the other, it is transparent. Typical mirrors achieve a high degree of reflectiveness on one side, leaving the reverse opaque to optical light. This is done by covering the glass layer with ... |
10 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Sunglasses are defined as an ophthalmologic medical article made of frames and lenses, meant to diminish the amount of sunlight; however, they do not accomplish any sort of optical correction. Their main goal is to protect the wearer against excessive sunlight. In many cases, we pay exaggerated amounts of money for t... |
8 May 2008
08:39 GMT |
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There are two types of motion sensors currently commercially available, the active sensors and passive sensors. A motion sensor is classified as being active only when it emits some kind of energy into the surrounding medium to make an accurate reading, whether it is infrared light, microwave radiation or sound waves... |
7 May 2008
06:04 GMT |
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The traditional fiber optic is virtually reduced to transmitting light through a narrow cylindrical glass core. However, this particular design imposes certain restrictions to sending light signals over great distances, such as the fact that the glass fiber optic is highly sensitive to powerful light signals, which c... |
18 January 2008
06:27 GMT |
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The carbon nanopipette, which can also be used to inject certain fluids into cells without damaging or disable the growing of the respective cell, is the smallest of its kind, with a width measuring only a thousand of the diameter of a human hair. Such micropipettes made out of glass can be routinely found in researc... |
16 January 2008
10:11 GMT |
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There are infrared glasses, protective ones, glasses that improve your vision and even 'over-the-top' glasses. But what about glasses that make you sleep in a nice and easy way? A team at John Carroll University, making investigations in its Lighting Innovations Institute, has come up with an affordable acc... |
14 November 2007
04:26 GMT |
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A baby may be sunshine for the parents, but sunshine for the baby is really harmful. There is a higher risk of myopia later in life. About 25 % of myopia cases seem to be caused by a too great exposure to sunlight in the first weeks of life. It was already known that over-exposure to sunlight caused myopia in animals... |
25 September 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Glass, even the one used in windows, has always fascinated scientists and not only due to its transparency. Like other solids, such as acrylic and polycarbonate, glass has a weird structure, which is not crystalline but disordered at the atomic scale.Essentially, glass is a liquid frozen in time. This freezing, howe... |
27 July 2007
08:58 GMT |
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90 % of the way we perceive our environment comes through our eyes. We are mainly visual creatures. But modern lifestyle with so many hours spent in front of the TV or the computer’s monitor is a strenuous task for our eyes. At birth, the greatest danger for the baby is represented by the infections of the cornea or ... |
23 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Research in the field of artificial fibers have boosted in the last years and aim to create new and improved artificial replacements for natural materials that not only have the same properties, but also present artificial enhancements to benefit the clothing industry and other branches.An international science and ... |
22 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Plexiglas, in fact an acrylic glass, is the commercial name of Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or poly (methyl 2-methylpropenoate) is the synthetic polymer of methyl methacrylate. It is thermoplastic - deformable, melts to a liquid when heated and freezes to a brittle, glassy state when cooled sufficiently - transpar... |
24 April 2007
09:30 GMT |
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When you think of marine civilizations, your mind may go to Greeks or Vikings, but actually a much older one is that of the Phoenicians. They called themselves Canaanites and their land Canaan, located along the coastal plains of what is now Lebanon and Syria. The Phoenician cities were built on the coast, in places... |
5 April 2007
11:52 GMT |
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A new research points out the fact that the smallest particles in lunar dust might be toxic, and could be a possible threat to astronauts inhaling them. These health effects have been signaled since NASA's Apollo missions. Astronaut Harrison H (Jack) Schmitt, the last man to step on to the Moon in Apollo 17, com... |
20 March 2007
04:07 GMT |
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When you hear "glass", a window pane comes to mind. Ever tried bending one? Surely not, since most people are not very fond of glass shards. And yet, a new type of metallic glass bends in more than acceptable physical limits and "bends" again in commercial products like electric transformers, golfclubs and more. Ask ... |
10 March 2007
08:38 GMT |
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