Corning presents the next Gorilla Glass generation-- Willow Glass, an ultra-slim flexible glass for "today's slim displays and the smart surfaces of the future."
The glass is just 100 microns thick (as thin as a sheet of copy paper) and can be potentially "wrapped" or mounted around non-flat surfaces. The company also says Willow Glass supports thinner backplanes and colour filters for both OLED and LCD technologies.
It withstands temperatures of up to 500 degrees Celsius, allowing for previously impossible high-temperature, continuous "roll-to-roll" processes similar to newsprint production.
OEMs can also produce the glass using current sheet-to-sheet processes.
Gorilla Glass is currently sending sample Willow glass rolls to unnamed customers while testing out other potential applications for the technology, including lighting and flexible solar cells.
The Wonderbook is a physical book with pages full of augmented reality (AR) markers. Using the Eye camera, the console captures interactions with the book before showing the same book transformed into an impressive enhanced pop up book on TV.
It is the first ultrabook to feature a 21:9 aspect ratio display with 1792x768 resolution, ideal for movie watching (despite the lack of Blu-ray drive). No small wonder the W in the name stands for Wide!
Part of the SATA 3.2 Revision, USM Slim trims the port to 9mm (down from 14.5mm) in order to allow integration with thinner devices.
SVP of Telepresence Technology OJ Winge says "Cisco will no longer invest in the Cisco Cius tablet form factor, and no further enhancements will be made to the current Cius endpoint beyond what’s available today. However, as we evaluate the market further, we will continue to offer Cius in a limited fashion to customers with specific needs or use cases."
