Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Saturday, October 20, 2012

10 Cutting-Edge Glass Concepts

You have to see it to believe it, watch this video below. You will fall in love with the future instantly. It walks you through a day in the life of your not-too-distant future self, using glass in ways that would have sounded like pure science-fiction fantasy a few years back! I re-played it a few times and still loving it!


Here is a guided tour of the same video. The technical details are elaborated here, you won't regret spending 11 minutes 25 seconds more of your time to watch it:


I just can't wait for tomorrow to come. Have a great day!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Self-Healing Paint

Fixing scratches on cars and furniture may be cheap and easy to do yourself in the not-too-distant future. Together with partners in the USA and Switzerland, Case Western Reserve University have developed a polymer-based material that can heal itself when placed under ultraviolet light for less than a minute.

Nissan has applied this technology and produced iPhone cases as the world's first "self-healing" iPhone case. Stuart Rowan, Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University will explain how it works in this video: