Gadgetory

your next phone could survive a few more of these if it's covered in Gorilla Glass six Corning has just announced its next-generation Gorilla Glass and it's supposed to withstand drops of up to one meter about hip height 15 times that's about two years worth of drops for the average consumer making it twice as durable as the previous Gorilla Glass five at least according to Corning as good as it was guerrilla glass six is better it drops at higher Heights but more importantly for repeated drops at one meter the company showed us how they torture their glass to get it ready for primetime in their labs in Silicon Valley first your traditional drop test with this machine that's able to drop it at an angle no surprise that the curve is the weakest link on the glass the company said they tested Gorilla Glass 6 up to 2 meters as high as this machine goes they also have the tumble test to mimic the most hazardous environment of all the purse the phone gets put in with cosmetics keys and coins to see just how scratch-resistant the glasses and my personal favorite the super slapper this pendulum mimics the impact and is measured in joules of impact energy but even Corning admits that the design of a phone can play a huge part in how fast that phone breaks so we'll have to conduct some tests of our own once they hit the market which could be very soon we've been sampling them for for some time now and they're actually designing Gorilla Glass 6 into their products that will launch later this year does that mean the note 9 I phone 10 plus pixel 3 maybe and it's not just about making glass durable Corning is also changing the look of Gorilla Glass beyond this year's devices this is matte glass and it makes fingerprints significantly harder to see because Matt is the new black and this one even has texture which mimics the design that it's on and for wearables they've made something called a DX plus composite which can be applied to Gorilla Glass to reduce reflections and help prevent scratching beyond that even flexible screens which Corning is already testing out as well we have done glasses down to a hundred microns which is 0.1 millimeter about the thickness of a sheet of paper and can go thinner than that and these glasses can bend within 5 millimeter radius so about 1/4 inch radius so as you talk about foldable flexible displays that's about the range of fold or and that people are interested