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| Willow Glass |
Do you ever try to imagine the future? Do you fantasize about what
cellphones may be like years from now? Are you still waiting for
holographic television and implanted electronics or flying cars? I love
to wonder about the future, and some amazing high-tech stuff is coming
sooner than you think!
Corning, the New York-based developer of the now famous Gorilla
Glass, has just announced the next generation of super thin material,
and its called Willow Glass. This new glass is as thin as a sheet of
paper, is amazingly flexible, and can wrap around just about anything
leading to a whole host of futuristic applications.
Corning Willow Glass could lead to several cost-efficient
applications including many of today’s slim displays, and some uber-cool
smart surfaces of the future. The thinness, strength, and flexibility
of this glass has the potential to enable displays to be “wrapped”
around a device or a structure, it can be rolled, or folded and
flattened.
Willow Glass holds tremendous promise, not only because of its
thinness and bendability, but because it could very well revolutionize
the form and shape of smartphones, TVs, tablets, e-readers and a whole
host of other consumer electronic devices.
It is likely that Willow Glass will be used to replace Gorilla Glass
in many of its existing applications and it will start turning up in
ways you never thought possible. Folks are already coming up with great
ideas for this new material. Can you say “Flexi-reader”? Look for it in a
pocket near you.
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