Flex your screen: Corning's curvy Willow Glass (pictures)
Corning's Willow Glass should start shipping on smartphones and tablets in early 2014.
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Corning's yogic Willow Glass is so slim and flexible, you can bend a sheet deeply without breaking. Corning's division vice president and Willow director Dr. Dipak Chowdhury demonstrates just how far it'll curve.
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Ultraslim
Laminated in plastic to protect it, Willow Glass is business card-thin, only 0.1 millimeter thick.
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My turn
I get my own hands on the glass, which is as malleable as promised. We should start seeing devices as soon as a year from now. There's a lot more to know about the glass, so be sure to read up on all the details here.
