Corning, the makers of the nigh-impenetrable Gorilla glass found on many top-end smartphones recently released a video showing us “A Day Made of Glass,” where glass smartphones communicate with glass tables, glass TVs, glass computers, and glass cars. I guess this is also the glasstopia where Corning makes everything anyone uses and rules the planet with a firm but benevolent hand.
Although the video spans concepts for a variety of applications, there are four in particular geared for mobile. One involves sharing video calls from the handset to a touch and display-enabled counter. I would imagine you’d have to prop up the phone in order to stay in the picture if you’re going to be dragging the video call window all over the place.
The second use case is transferring public transportation direction from a shelter to a handset, which could be done through NFC, Bluetooth, or camera-based object recognition. That actually sounds very doable right now, nevermind in some high-brow futureland.
The third use case is more professional, where a work area would recognize files on a phone, and have them fly out for manipulation. The Microsoft Surface does this already for sharing photos, but in this concept, the files are videos. I don’t exactly buy this file sharing mechanism, since the way things are going, everything will be available in the cloud somewhere, and you won’t have to stick by the old drag-and-drop idea.
Lastly, there’s an application which similarly shares 3D models and schematics with bendable glass e-display. This one’s actually pretty awesome, since we’ve seen bendy glass as technically possible, but no real applications for it. Being used as a blank slate in design and architecture seems perfectly viable, and definitely useful.
Anyhoo, here’s the video for your viewing pleasure. I’d worry about just about everything in this video shatting from moderate impacts, but it’s cool-lookin’ nonetheless.
[via AndroidCommunity]