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The Day Made of Glass – A Glimpse of the Future

A day made of glass is a video series released on Youtube by Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning Incorporated. The company is a world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. It manufactures display glasses for Televisions, Computers, Handheld devices, touch screen and tablets.

The first video of the series was uploaded on YouTube in Feb 2011 and has received 19,523,661 views till date. The video provides a glimpse into the future of touch technology and growing popularity of touch screen, tablets and mobile devices. The video demonstrates that in future the application of touch screen technology would not be limited to tablets, computers or smart phones. Most of the technologies displayed in the video are in the development stages but would soon become reality in the near future. Can you imagine, organizing your daily schedule on your interactive bathroom mirror, watching news on the surface of your dining table or kitchen counter, glass which adjusts according to the lighting conditions, voice controlled cars and flexible glass technology which lets you read your book on a paper thin piece of flexible glass? Corning is working on these technologies and researching to bring them alive. The video features all these technologies on which the company is currently working. So, watch the video to have a glimpse of the near future.

VIDEO 2

The second video is the continuation of the first and demonstrates the technologies which actually are in the process of or have already been made possible by the present technologies.