About five years ago, Corning — the company behind the ubiquitous
strengthened Gorilla Glass found in countless smartphones — made a
concept video called “A Day Made of Glass”
designed to show off how glass could be applied in futuristic ways to
pretty much every aspect of life. This year at CES, Corning’s booth is
dedicated to claiming how that vision is now feasible.
Or at least, it’ll be feasible as far as Corning is concerned — many
of these demos show impressive use of glass married to janky software
that really ought to have been built by an actual software company.
That’s actually part of why Corning is at CES; it hopes to meet partners
that can help bring ideas like this to life.
For now, a little suspension of disbelief is required to imagine how
this could all work in practice. But the Gorilla Glass in our pockets is
the most important flat surface we interact with every day — and
Corning is betting that this will soon apply to far more objects around
us.
By: Sam Byford.
Review: Emerging Market Formulations & Research Unit, Flagship Records.
For The #FacebookTeam
