Gorilla Glass

Your Screen Protector Is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Screen protectors are slowly becoming a thing of the past as glass on phones continue to get stronger.

Just How Durable Is the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra?

So far it's faring better in JerryRigEverything's initial teardown test than Apple's iPhone 15 Pro.

Samsung Has Made Repairing the Galaxy S24 Ultra a Breeze

One of the first teardowns of Samsung’s latest high-end smartphone has a bigger cooling apparatus to manage higher temps coming from the AI-focused CPU.

Corning Made a New Type of Gorilla Glass Just for Smartphone Cameras

Corning Says Gorilla Glass DX and DX+ is more durable than traditional anti-reflective lens coatings while still allowing 98% of light to hit the camera sensor.

Corning Claims Newest Smartphone Glass Is Stronger and Twice as Durable

Corning’s Gorilla Glass is one of the most recognized components used to help protect smartphones against the perils of everyday life. Typically, each new generation of Gorilla Glass comes with improved durability against either drops or scratches, but not both. However, for its newest formula of Gorilla Glass—Gorilla Glass Victus—Corning promises that’s about to change.…

The Durable Glass Bendy Phones Need Could Be Years Away

I’ve loved the idea of folding gadgets ever since Arthur C. Clarke talked about flexible “SoftScreens” in books like, The Light of Other Days. A device that can be folded and crumpled without breaking? That’s my idea of the perfect gadget, and while the bendy Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X seem like they…

The Next Version of Gorilla Glass Will Help Your Phone Survive a Five-Foot Fall

It’s an unfortunate irony that the device we now rely on so heavily is also so incredibly fragile. Your smartphone’s big, beautiful touchscreen is an accident waiting to happen, but Corning continues its magnanimous to improve the survival rate of your hardware, and its latest creation, Gorilla Glass 5, should help your phone survive even…

LaCie Wrapped This 1TB External Drive in Mirror-Finish Gorilla Glass

LaCie’s no stranger to turning external storage into works of art. Last year it hid a terabyte of drive space inside a silver-plated sphere, and while its brand new Mirror might have a more traditional rectangular form factor, it’s the first external drive to be completely wrapped in reflective, scratch-resistant, mirror-finish Gorilla Glass. So you’ll…

Next-Gen Gorilla Glass Wants to Save Your Phone From Fateful Drops 

Few of us ever really bat an eye if we get a scratch or two on our smartphone’s screen. The real heartbreaker is when the phone is accidentally dropped or knocked off a table and the screen shatters, leaving it completely unusable. It’s a fate many of us have experienced before, and one that Corning…

Your Next Smartphone Could Have Security Sensors Built Into Its Screen

The slab of glass on the front of your phone currently detects your finger prods and allows light to pour through—but soon, it could provide an extra layer of security, too. A team of researchers from Polytechnique Montreal has devised a new technique which allows them to create in-glass sensors within slabs of Gorilla Glass,…

Smashed your iPhone 5C screen recently? Looks like your days of picking shards of glass from your palms are numbered. Starting next week, Apple will finally start offering in-store screen repairs/replacementsfor 5C usersat any Apple Store. For those of you carrying a 5S, don’t worry; your day will come—eventually.

Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass Slaughters Bacteria With Toxic Silver

Everywhere you go you’re touching gross things and then touching your phone. How often do you disinfect your phone? Probably never! Luckily, Corning has developed a new version of its tough Gorilla Glass that kills bacteria. The trick is filling the glass with tiny silver bullets to murder the bastards. Last week, Corning teased its…

Gorilla Glass Will Be Coming Soon To a Curved Phone Near You

Gorilla Glass, Corning’s enormously sturdy scratch- and crack-resistant touchscreen glass, is pretty impressive, found on billions of devices worldwide. Now, the glass maker has announced a novel manufacturing technique to make 3D shapes out of Gorilla Glass. The ability to make 3D shaped glass (which is different from flexible glass) comes at an important time,…

BMW Is Going to Use Gorilla Glass in the BMW i8

After leaving most car enthusiasts wondering what’s next when it introduced the all electric BMW i3, BMW released some details about the upcoming plug-in hybrid i8. At a test track showing off the sports car, BMW revealed that the i8 will be the first car to use Gorilla Glass for its windows. https://gizmodo.com/bmws-electric-i3-all-vroom-no-gas-948723099 Specifically, the…

Laptops Are Getting New Super Durable Gorilla Glass

Corning has a new version of its ultra-tough touchscreen glass called Gorilla Glass NBT, meant for touchscreen notebooks. What makes Gorilla Glass NBT so good? Many of the displays on laptops are made from soda lime glass. But Gorilla Glass NBT is made from a different material altogether, and while Corning doesn’t exactly divulge what…

Your Next Smartphone Screen Will Be Able to Disinfect Itself

Your phone is filthy. Anything that’s getting rubbed by your grimy little fingers on a ridiculously regular basis is going to be far from pristine. But Corning can help. Its newest revision of Gorilla Glass is not only ridiculously resilient, it also kills pesky germs all by itself. Corning discussed its upcoming display tech at…

Gorilla Glass 3 Hands On: Somehow Even More Indestructible (Exclusive)

Corning is unveiling the newest iteration of its popular Gorilla Glass line of scratch- and crack- resistant screens at the Consumer Electronics Show tomorrow but we were able to get an early preview of just how tough GG3 really is. And boy is it. The original Gorilla Glass was an immediate hit when it launched…

New Tougher Gorilla Glass 3 Is Coming Next Week

Corning has made it known that next week, the company will tell us all about its latest ultra tough gadget glass. Details about Gorilla Glass 3 are scant right now, but here’s what we do know: It’ll be tough stuff. According to the release from Corning, the new gadget glass will feature “new glass composition…

Corning and Samsung Team Up for Gorilla Glass-Tough OLED

Gorilla Glass, especially version 2.0, has earned its reputation for durability and strength. But reputation only goes so far and Samsung wants something more. That’s why Cornign and Samsung are joining forces to develop a newer, better, more scratch-resistant AMOLED screens. The new substrate has been dubbed Lotus Glass and, in addition to being as…

How Glass Changed the World—Over and Over Again

You probably haven’t given much thought to the fact that there’s a slab of chemically strengthened glass in your pocket, deflecting blows from keys or change or any other hard objects might slide or scrape or scratch against it, or that the hundreds of millions of similar slices of glass lining pockets around the world…