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LG Shows Off Foldable Plastic Display That Promises to Be As Hard As Glass
LG is done making smartphones, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t still attempting to one-up its biggest rival. Samsung beat the competition to the punch with foldable phones, but its bendable screens came with a preinstalled layer of protective film to keep the display from falling apart. LG’s solution to this promises to be more sophisticated, with…
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Corning Made a New Type of Gorilla Glass Just for Smartphone Cameras
Corning’s Gorilla Glass has long been used to create super-strong see-through panels used on the front and back of phones, tablets, and more, but now Corning has created a new version of its durable silica designed specifically for use in smartphone cameras.
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Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 Is Tougher Than Ever
Video: Used on over four and a half billion devices around the world so far, Corning’s Gorilla Glass is the gold standard for smartphone and tablet screens because of its scratch and shatter resistance. The current generation of Gorilla Glass can resist a drop from a metre in height up to 80 per cent of…
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How This Revolutionary Industrial Glass Made Its Way Into Your Kitchen
You might not know it by name, but chances are you have a Pyrex dish in your kitchen right now — most Americans probably do. A fascinating history over at Collectors Weekly traces the ubiquitous supermaterial as part of an exhibition which opened this week at the Corning Museum of Glass.