Gorilla glass shields your TV from Wii damages

Video gamers learn about Wii damages involving TV glass, and now there’s a business that thinks they have an option. According to the AP, Corning Inc. has taken their 50-year-old Chemcor invention and made it marketable as Gorilla glass. The 159-year-old company expects to use Gorilla glass within the production of high-end televisions and touch-screen tablets soon.

Gorilla glass first roared two years ago

It took Corning decades, but it seems that now they’ve found commercial application for Gorilla glass. That currently produces $ 170 million per year, and entry into the television and touch-screen system markets would multiply earnings for Corning into the billions. Also appealing to the high-end flat screen TV clientele would be the possibilities of a Gorilla glass frameless flat screen. It would be tough enough to stay together, yet look more like art than an appliance. The strength of the product would protect against such things as Wii accidents, yet the products would still appear elegant.

Three times stronger and half as thick

AP reports that Gorilla glass beats ordinary LCD display glass hands down. It’s three times as strong and much thinner. Because of the less-than-a-dime thickness, it is quite light in weight. Corning is at the moment working with Asian manufacturers to introduce Gorilla glass to the television market by early 2011. Share prices of Corning are already up, which is a good sign. They made $ 5.4 billion on TV glass in 2009, and also the demand should cause Gorilla glass sales to increase that number tremendously. Adding Gorilla glass to TVs is predicted to add only $ 30 to $ 60 per unit.

Ready for Gorilla glass in other products?

Corning has its eye on numerous Gorilla glass uses. For instance, refrigerator doors, vehicle sunroofs and stationary touch-screen interfaces are all choices. Yet with the television market alone, Corning would likely make a killing with Gorilla glass.

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