Forget about all the company’s work on its incredibly durable Gorilla Glass . No one’s going to care if their smartphone’s screen gets scratched when Corning’s other major innovation hits consumers. Because when their device is covered in Fibrance , a fiber-optic thread-like material that glows in any color and looks like a prop straight out of the TRON universe, they’ll be too distracted to care. Read more…
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Corning’s Lotus Glass promised a world full of thinner, more advanced mobile displays when it was unveiled in 2011, but it hasn’t always been easy to build with the volumes or features that customers want. Enter the company’s new Lotus XT Glass as the solution: clients can produce it more reliably at high temperatures, leading to more usable panels for our LCDs and OLEDs. The improved yields should not only result in larger device volumes than the original Lotus Glass could muster, but push the technological limits — Corning notes that hotter manufacturing allows for brighter, sharper and more efficient screens. The glass is commercially available today, although we’ll still need to wait for gadget makers to choose, implement and ship it before we notice the XT difference. Filed under: Cellphones , Tablets , Mobile Comments Source: Corning
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Corning intros Lotus XT Glass for next-gen mobile displays, touts more efficient production (video)