Anti-glare screen self-cleaning

Mobile device manufacturers are experimenting with new anti-glare glasses with antimicrobial functionality.

In the sunlight, the touch screen on your iPhone or tablet will look like a blur. If you have a microscope next to you, you must be startled by all the bacteria on the glass.

Anti-glare glass, antibacterial under test - (Photo: Corning)

Corning, the maker of protective goggles, is working on an anti-glare glass that is equipped with anti-bacterial technology to kill bacteria and viruses on the surface of the phone.

Corning's deputy general manager Jeffrey Evenson described the new display at the MIT Mobile Technology Conference in San Francisco, according to Phone Arena.

The screen will be made of glass used in fiber optics, and more than 30 times the highest transparency.

Not only is it theoretically capable of withstanding the pressure of 10,000 elephants raised, it also reduces glare when carried outdoors.

In the attached image, the center circle is not the hole but the area where the anti-glare technology is applied.

An anti-bacterial coating is being tested and shown to kill viruses and bacteria for 2 hours. Corning predicts that the technology will soon be rolling out within the next two years.