Tag: Corning

These days, Corning is best known for its Gorilla Glass, which protects millions of smartphones and other devices. But the glass and ceramics specialist also knows a thing or two about decorative items. It recently unveiled Fibrance, a light-diffusing glass optical fiber made that’s thin, flexible and discreet.

Okay, I made that part about gorillas up, but it’s easy to forget the usefulness of Gorilla Glass. A lot of the smartphones and tablet people use everyday are covered in this durable material. That’s one of the reasons that the screen on your phone won’t break if you drop inadvertently.

Videos that depict the future of computers crop up every now and then, and although they are fun to watch, most of them are more flash than substance. This clip from Corning Inc. – the glass and ceramics company that gave us Gorilla Glass, among other things –  is no better, since it’s obviously a very biased conceptualization, but it does contain a few neat, if not mind-blowing, ideas.