• MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Says the company that has said this about every single version of their glass for the last 10+ years?

    Don’t get me wrong I love how durable and scratch resistant modern phone screens are compared to the first ones, but let’s not kid ourselves. These are tiny incremental improvements each generation at this point.

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      4 days ago

      Yeas, to me it looks more like an orange. So that would be comparing apples to oranges.

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      We’ve been able to make that for a few years now (I’m still here, so I must have missed the Klingon Bird of Prey train off themis damn planet) but it was expensive

      But just last month they figured out how to do it more cheaply so it might be coming… someday

      https://phys.org/news/2025-02-transparent-aluminum-tiny-acid-droplets.html

      Current methods of making TAlOx are expensive and complicated, requiring high-powered lasers, vacuum chambers, or large vats of dangerous acids. That may change thanks to research co-authored by Filipino scientists from the Ateneo de Manila University.

      Instead of immersing entire sheets of metal into acidic solutions, the researchers applied microdroplets of acidic solution onto small aluminum surfaces and applied an electric current. Just two volts of electricity—barely more than what’s found in a single AA household flashlight battery—was all that was needed to transform the metal into glass-like TAlOx.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I doubt it, since they keep putting glass on the back of phones too so you’re pretty much guaranteed to hit glass when you drop it.

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    4 days ago

    Vs the gorilla glass that’s been on phones for like a decade now?