Willow: New shield for technology devices

Corning, the creator of the Gorrila range of proprietary glasses - the "shield" for technological devices - has launched a new generation of glass.

With its thin, flexible design, named Willow Glass , this new product impresses with the ability to wrap around a device, the BBC's New York-based developer Corning said. .

New glasses have been introduced at the Information Society Conference recently held in Boston.

In addition to the applications for mobile devices, it can also be used for uneven displays, which have yet to appear in practice.

The prototype of thin glass like a paper, and Corning said it can reduce the thickness of the screen from 0.2 mm or 0.5 mm today to 0.05 mm

The material used to make Willow glass is the result of a process called "melting and combining ". Accordingly, the components are melted at a temperature of 500 degrees Celsius, then spread out into a sheet of material in the same process as traditional printing.

In the future, willow glass can replace Gorilla glass used in technology devices, from cell phones to tablets.

Corning also introduced Gorilla 2, 20% thinner than its predecessor, at the CES technology fair earlier this year in Las Vegas.

The first generation of Gorilla Glass, launched in 2007, has been screening more than 575 products from 33 manufacturers, accounting for more than half a billion devices worldwide.

Gorilla caught the eye of late Apple president Steve Jobs as the "apple house" was preparing to launch its first iPhone in 2006.