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Apple Acquires Rights to Liquidmetal Technologies' Advanced Metal Alloys
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Hah...I never thought I'd find such a quick connection between Apple and Head tennis racquets. I now stand corrected!
Uh, no. He's right, you're not. Scotty bought off the shelf materials they already had. 6" thick. Brought them "home" the same day. No time to mfgr. Geez...can't believe I sound like a Trekkie.
You and me both. Think of the 1984 commercial, now Apple has become the man. Those iPods blowing up weren't faulty, it's the 98% that don't that are faulty.
This is the end. Google knows every email all us Gmailers have ever had, knows what websites we go on...what our fetishes are. You think going incognito and searching for "milf" was going to save you from a personalised T1000 knocking on your door, looking like a busty coogar.
You nailed it.
Not to mention the fact that someone is either deliberately ignoring the fact that Apple uses an aluminum alloy to make all their devices that are built out of the material, or is painfully ignorant of metallurgy and modern manufacturing.
fixed that for you.Damn! I just dropped my iPhone T-1000 on the floor ...
Next time I'll have to use acasecup.
What a wonderful idiot filter this thread is...
(I'd use a smiley here but there doesn't seem to be one extreme enough.)
(I'd use a smiley here but there doesn't seem to be one extreme enough.)
Thank you. While reading some of the extremely ignorant and equally opinionated drivel all I could do was imagine their embarrassment the day they learn the very first thing about what the word "aluminum" means in industry. Head, explode.
I'd love to know what you two are talking about. Every one is clearly excited at the condition of the metals used, not the type of metals.
for the firm's advanced "amorphous" metal alloys.
This amorphous atomic structure leads to a unique set of characteristic properties for the family of Liquidmetal alloys.
These characteristic properties are:
- High Yield Strength
- High Hardness
- Superior Strength/Weight Ratio
- Superior Elastic Limit
- High Corrosion Resistance
- High Wear-Resistance
- Unique Acoustical Properties
I tried Searching the forums, with which I never seem to have much luck. Possible user error?
Anyway, wasn't it reported here that Apple filed a patent for some flexible docking station/charger type of pad/device for the iPhone, possibly laptops as well?
Maybe this is where Liquidmetal comes into play.
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Anyway, wasn't it reported here that Apple filed a patent for some flexible docking station/charger type of pad/device for the iPhone, possibly laptops as well?
Maybe this is where Liquidmetal comes into play.
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You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology we're discussing. It would be great if you would read the links in the news article before you post.
That patent included some kind of deformable solid to accept the devices. This, despite the name, is very solid.
Term "moronic" in general should be reserved for Apple fanboys who do not know much about anything but Apple. Apple indeed released its first laptop in 1991 (PowerBook 100). But other companies had being already selling them for years. From Wikipedia: "The first laptops using the flip form factor appeared in the early 1980s. The Dulmont Magnum was released in Australia in 1981-82, but was not marketed internationally until 1984-85. The $8150 GRiD Compass 1100, released in 1982, was used at NASA and by the military among others. The Gavilan SC, released in 1983, was the first notebook marketed using the term "laptop."[8] From 1983 onward, several new input techniques were developed and included in laptops, including the touchpad (Gavilan SC, 1983), the pointing stick (IBM ThinkPad 700, 1992) and handwriting recognition (Linus Write-Top,[9] 1987). Some CPUs were designed specifically for low-power use such as laptops (Intel i386SL, 1990) and were supported by dynamic power management features (Intel SpeedStep and AMD PowerNow!) in some designs."
In fact the computer considered to be the first laptop had magnesium alloy case: "Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen."
Here is another Grid Compass computer (probably descendant): GRiD Compass 1101. Quote from this page: "Designed to be the ultimate portable computer, the clamshell-style GRiD Compass 1101 is the grand-daddy of all present-day laptop computers.
The Compass is very high-tech, with its flat-black, die-cast magnesium-alloy case, and bright, sharp electroluminescent display (ELD). No other system packed so much speed and power in as small a case, and none had such a unique and large, easy-to-read screen, allowing full 80x24 text. "
Impressive. You cite a government top secret laptop for NASA and compare it to consumer product laptop. Genius is not thy name.
I think we are safe....Apple seems to be struggling to figure out this whole Internet/cloud computing thing.