{"id":6208,"date":"2012-09-29T20:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2012-09-29T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:04:31","slug":"how-gorilla-glass-came-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/how-gorilla-glass-came-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gorilla Glass Came to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/09\/ff-corning-gorilla-glass\/all\/\">Bryan Gardiner<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/09\/the-story-of-how-gorilla-glass-came-to-be\">Jason Kottke<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/09\/ff-corning-gorilla-glass\/all\/\"><p>The idea to dust off the Chemcor samples actually cropped up in 2005, before Apple had even entered the picture. Motorola had recently released the Razr V3, a flip phone that featured a glass screen in lieu of the typical high-impact plastic. Corning formed a small group to examine whether an 0317-like glass could be revived and applied to devices like cell phones and watches. The old Chemcor samples were as thick as 4 millimeters. But maybe they could be made thinner. After some market research, executives believed the company could even earn a little money off this specialty product. The project was codenamed Gorilla Glass.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Gardiner (via Jason Kottke): The idea to dust off the Chemcor samples actually cropped up in 2005, before Apple had even entered the picture. Motorola had recently released the Razr V3, a flip phone that featured a glass screen in lieu of the typical high-impact plastic. Corning formed a small group to examine whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,135],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-iphone","tag-materials"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}