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This product doesn't appear to be outside of the realm of the possible; bulk metallic glasses are a real thing (and apparently not excessively expensive for consumer electronics, a number of Sandisk's adequate-but-cheap-and-wholly-unexciting MP3 players used them as chassis materials); and the rest of the specs are on the high side; but available.

However, there appears to be almost nothing about this 'Turing Robotic Industries' except a couple of sites with the same 3d renders and vague puffery. Is 'cryptic' just what all the cool kids are doing these days, or is this the ever delightful scent of vaporware?

I suspect these guys may be an industrial manufacturer or some form or other, where a webpage is basically whoever can host web pages for free and who use gmail for email.

Given Apple just renewed their exclusivity to use Liquid Metal technology (in consumer electronics), someone's going to be in a world of hurt.

Could be these guys may be forced to license through Apple, Apple may demand damages from Liquid Metal for allowing this to happen, or Liquid Metal might terminate the contract with these guys.

Might want to hold off on the pre-orders...

Despite the exciting name, all this stuff does is protect against bounces.

Huh? Their website says it's brittle: http://liquidmetal.com/properties/properties/

Now the entire iPhone can shatter when you drop it.

No but according to the company it can make knives and stabbing weapons:

http://info.liquidmetal.com/blog/bid/289868/Liquidmetal-Blades-Knives-and-Other-Sharp-Things

Except for the unobtanium that you'll be constructing the balloons out of.

I was thinking about something like this.

http://www.liquidmetal.com/

Twice the strength of titanium and is able to be molded like plastic. I thought I remember them saying that they were able to produce finished products that are accurate down to the micron, but I don't see that on their site anymore.

There was a revolution when we added "plastic" to our list of building materials. It's cheap and can be easily molded into complex shapes at a very low cost. Don't worry about fossil fuels for the raw materials, we've already begun making plastics from plants. Plastic is here to stay.

Will graphene revolutionize the 21st century? Probably, but only in some domains. It has the potential to replace silicium for building faster processors and higher density solid-state memory, it's already revolutionized building materials if you're not afraid of the high cost and long manufacturing process.

But there's something else that's quite interesting: liquid metal (the real thing, not the T-1000 kind) allow us to mold metal at a very low cost like plastic. That's going to be a revolution in itself.

What the fuck? Sorry, not you but the article's date. Amorphous metal or metallic glass that doesn't require rapid cooling has been around for more than a few years and is commercially available. The company is called Liquidmetal and the way they manage to make the stuff is basically using a big mix of many metals so that it cannot form orderly crystalline shapes because the sizes of the atoms vary too much.

They even mention this was the result of efforts from CalTech like in TFA! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidmetal

Google is being of limited help here. The main link I'm finding is to Liquidmetal Technologies, which is producing Liquidmetal and Vitreloy -- zirconium-based alloys which are amorphous in structure (hence the "liquid" in the name) but are otherwise solid in appearance and use (and much stronger than stainless steel or titanium). This is not something one would be pumping through heat tubes to cool a CPU.

Obviously, mercury is out due to its toxicity. My initial thought was they're using metal bits in a suspension, but I have doubts as to whether this would actually do anything useful. Deeper searching yields this page, which describes a gallium/indium/tin alloy which is liquid at room temperature. Wikipedia'a entry for gallium concurs, saying, "It has been suggested that a liquid gallium-tin alloy could be used to cool computer chips in place of water."

Any materials experts out there care to comment?

Do these guys actually sell a product, yet?

I remember reading something about golf clubs made of this stuff years ago, but their stock isn't exactly doing well.

http://ir.liquidmetal.com/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=LQMT&script=300&layout=-6

I am a materials engineer at the University of British Columbia in Canada. I recently did a technical presentation on 'Bulk Metallic Alloys' which seems to be the category of materials this 'glass' falls into. BMG's are very exiting materials, their main advantage over traditional alloys is their ability to store energy in elastic deformation. Esentially, they are the worlds best spring material. However; Be careful with your application in using these materials, they may have properties of strong alloys, but they have failure characteristics simmilar to ceramics. Usually they can fail with little to no warning, and catastrophically at that. Crack formation cannot be tolerated. I would not be comfortable with using this material for plane wings. Possibly the landing gear. This material has its niche in underplating for bodyarmor. Send the bullets back. For more information, a good website is http://www.liquidmetal.com/

Because you can....and trying out different ways to cool down a computer may one day lead to a better solution than noisy fans. I just ran across another method people are trying to cool down graphics chips using Liquid Metal.

No, you're looking for a LiquidMetal case.

Took some serious hitting with a sledge hammer and a vice to put any kind of a bend in the metal. Impressive stuff.

Want to see something really cool? Check out "Liquidmetal". It's an alloy of titanium and other metals and has some really amazing properties. For one, it can be cast and does not form crystals like titanium, has a low melting tempature compared to it's component metals - it can actually be injection-molded. It's twice as strong as titanium by weight and much more flexible. There's a bounce-test video on their web site that it a hoot.

Right now it's being used for the hinges in that new Motorola Razor phone, various sporting goods and military applications. Cool stuff.

Your nanoyarn vest won't do you any good once nanotube munitions are available. In the nearer future, Liquidmetal should make a good armor.

Check our the technology section of their website. Towards the bottom they site excellent fatigue resistance. And the material is more elastic than Ti. At first glance of the properties I would have thought it was a metal-plastic matrix.

As someone else already pointed out, www.liquidmetal.com/technology/ has more info - it states that it is yield strength that is twice as high as conventional titanium alloys, and mentions fatigue resistance as one thing that an alloy can be tailored for.

There are so many questions being asked here about details... The company website has much more information than this article. Go to the source.

There are so many questions being asked here about details... The company website has much more information than this article. Go to the source.