Sure, every little detail like the story being about 3D printing an entire automobile when absolutely no such thing has happened.
I wonder if you'll be as forgiving when you buy a new car...
And if you think a car has 40 parts, boy are you naive. Even my RC toys are more complex.
FTA: As you can see by the Vine clips we have posted within this article, it most certainly does! The car, which features just 40 parts, drove out of McCormick Place in Chicago just moments ago. As to what Local Motors plans to do next with the Strati 3D printed car, now that the vehicle has been printed and drives like a charm, they will seek to launch production-level 3D printed vehicles for sale to the public in the coming months.
There's 40 parts to the car. Did they print out a fully functioning electric motor and battery for it? Headlights?!! Give me a break! Man, some of you posters here that harp on every little detail can be a real drag.
You realize that screens already don't break unless they land screen side down on something pointed?
Micro-fracturing of SapphireGlass is the problem. Small cracks develop from the slight twisting of the phone's body due to it's extra hardness, which leads to full cracking of the glass. So a gasket to compensate for that stress seems to be needed, in my humble opinion.
There are 3 different versions of Gorilla Glass, I believe the Samsung Galaxy S5 uses the latest one. From Wikipedia...
Gorilla Glass by 2010 had been used in approximately 20 percent of mobile handsets worldwide, about 200 million units.[9] The second generation, called "Gorilla Glass 2", was introduced in 2012. On October 24, 2012, Corning announced that over one billion mobile devices used Gorilla Glass.[10] Gorilla Glass 2 is 20 percent thinner than the original Gorilla Glass.[11]
Gorilla Glass 3 was introduced at CES 2013. Gorilla Glass 3 is up to three times more damage resistant than Gorilla Glass 2, being better able to resist the deep scratches that weaken glass. It is also more flexible.[12] Gorilla Glass 3 is claimed to be 40% more scratch-resistant.[13] This is Corning's first glass to be designed through an atomic-scale modeling before anything was melted in laboratories, the optimal composition being predicted using rigidity theory.
ION-EXCHANGE PROCESS
Ion exchange is a chemical strengthening process where large ions are “stuffed” into the glass surface, creating a state of compression. Gorilla Glass is specially designed to maximize this behavior. The glass is placed in a hot bath of molten salt at a temperature of approximately 400 degrees C. Smaller sodium ions leave the glass, and larger potassium ions from the salt bath replace them. These large ions take up more room and are pressed together when the glass cools, producing a layer of compressive stress on the surface of the glass. Gorilla Glass’ composition enables the potassium ions to diffuse far into the surface, creating high compressive stress deep into the glass. This layer of compression creates the surface that is more resistant to damage.
The glass consists of a thin sheet of alkali-aluminosilicate. Gorilla Glass is strengthened using an ion-exchange process which forces large ions into the spaces between molecules on the glass surface. Specifically, glass is placed in a 400C molten potassium salt bath, which forces potassium ions to replace the sodium ions originally in the glass. The larger potassium ions take up more space between the other atoms in the glass. As the glass cools, the crunched-together atoms produce a high level of compressive stress in the glass that helps protect the surface from mechanical damage.
From the linked older NetworkWorld story, Apr 22, 2014...
Apple is creating its own supply chain devoted to producing and finishing synthetic sapphire crystal in unprecedented quantities. The new Mesa, Ariz., plant, in a partnership with sapphire furnace maker GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) of Merrimack, N.H., will make Apple one of the world’s largest sapphire producers when it reaches full capacity, probably in late 2014. By doing so, Apple is assured of a very large amount of sapphire and insulates itself from the ups and downs of sapphire material pricing in the global market.
In keeping with long-standing practice, Apple has never publicly discussed the Arizona project or what it intends to do with such a vast amount of sapphire material. Rumors and more or less informed speculation have flourished in that silence.
The Arizona project was revealed in November, with Apple paying $578 million for GTAT to install and run its advanced sapphire growth furnaces in a plant built and owned by Apple. The news triggered a frenzy of speculation that Apple planned to use sapphire crystal sheets to replace the glass currently used in touch displays for its 2014 iPhones, iPads or a new line of “wearables” such as the long-rumored iWatch, or all of the above.
That’s only the tip of Apple’s investment. Once the 253-pound “hockey puck” shaped sapphire boules emerge from the furnaces, they’ll be shipped to Apple’s supply chain partners in Asia, including Biel Crystal Manufactory and Lens One Technology Co., for slicing, polishing, laser cutting, coating and eventual assembly.
But to do all this, these companies, and Apple, will have to invest heavily in new equipment that can handle sapphire, since only diamond is harder, and handle it in the quantities that Apple will produce. That’s not a simple process.
Natural sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, a crystalline form of aluminum oxide. Corundum is colorless, but in natural sapphires, various impurities create a range of colors: chromium makes the gem red, becoming a ruby; iron and titanium create the prized cornflower blue of a true sapphire.
Synthetic sapphire is colorless, unless deliberately colored. GTAT’s ASF uses a variation of what’s called the Czochralski process, combining the melting of aluminum oxide, a seed sapphire crystal, and heat extraction to crystalize the alumina melt. [For more details, see the accompanying slideshow: “Why Apple’s sapphire plan is as hard as the mineral itself”] Like natural sapphire, the synthetic is incredibly hard and that hardness creates challenges for using it.
“When the [sapphire] area is larger, with the increased hardness, it takes more aggressive abrasives to grind and polish it,” says Jennifer Stone-Sunderberg, who has a Ph.D. in solid state chemistry and crystal growth, and now consults in this field as a managing director of Crystal Solutions of Portland, Ore. “It’s time-consuming to polish something that hard.”
Secondly, it means overcoming a surprising problem: despite its hardness, synthetic sapphire can be prone to fracturing, at almost any point in this finishing process, due to impurities or to the presence of unresolved strains in the crystalline structure.
“That’s something that’s being very carefully measured and tested,” says Stone-Sunderberg. “Fracturing is probably of the highest concern. If a product is released with a more expensive touch screen [cover] and consumers experience fracturing, they’re going to be highly disappointed. It would be devastating to the sapphire industry.”
Tackling these issues on this scale and schedule has never been attempted before.
“GTAT and the rest of the Apple supply chain involved in this new sapphire component indeed have to execute an unprecedented - for the sapphire industry - r
This may have been a large $$$ loss for Apple, the company has bet big on Sapphire Glass. Previous/. article, how-apples-billion-dollar-sapphire-bet-will-pay-off http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...
CNET also covers this well, noting SapphireGlass costs $30 per unit versus $3 for Gorilla Glass. From the CNET article...
Corning, which has repeatedly criticized the use of sapphire as a mobile-device display, says its testing found that though sapphire is harder to scratch than its Gorilla Glass, daily use of a sapphire display will produce tiny cracks in the material. Those cracks can easily proliferate and cause the display to break more easily over time than Gorilla Glass. As a major manufacturer of industrial crystals, Corning should know a thing or two about sapphire. It used to make tubes of it for high-temperature lighting during the 1960s and 1970s, according to Jeffrey Evenson, Corning's operations chief of staff.
"As material guys, we think Gorilla has a lot more potential," Evenson said, who added that glass is much easier to manipulate into different forms, such as with the rounded Gorilla Glass display of the new Samsung Note Edge smartphone.
In the U.S., you are allowed 'reasonable' air rights. Reasonable meaning a tall antenna so you can pull in radio/TV signals. That seems about as far as you have rights to. From Wikipedia:
The landowner's claim raises some fundamental legal principles about the ownership of land and the airspace above the land. These principles have been developing over time. In early common law, when there was little practical use of the upper air over a person's land, the law considered that a landowner owned all of the airspace above their land. That doctrine quickly became obsolete when the airplane came on the scene, along with the realization that each property owner whose land was overflown could demand that aircraft keep out of the landowner's airspace, or exact a price for the use of the airspace. The law, drawing heavily on the law of the sea, then declared that the upper reaches of the airspace were free for the navigation of aircraft. In the case of United States v. Causby,[4] the U.S. Supreme Court declared the navigable airspace to be "a public highway" and within the public domain.
At the same time, the law, and the Supreme Court, recognized that a landowner had property rights in the lower reaches of the airspace above their property. The law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air navigation against the landowner's rights, declared that a landowner owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying land. In other words, a person's real property ownership includes a reasonable amount of the airspace above the property. A landowner can't arbitrarily try to prevent aircraft from overflying their land by erecting "spite poles," for example. But, a landowner may make any legitimate use of their property that they want, even if it interferes with aircraft overflying the land."[5]
related dilemma: should we develop algorithms that can lip read? Of course we should, we should develop any tech. The real question is, will it be used for moral or immoral purposes?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says that without proper privacy safeguards, the advancement of technology could lead to a world like the one portrayed in "1984" by George Orwell.
Speaking to Oklahoma City University faculty and students, the justice said Thursday that technology has allowed devices to "listen to your conversations from miles away and through your walls." She added: "We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too."
The President Obama appointee also discussed the lack of privacy standards concerning drones.
"There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that’s happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don’t like the fact that someone I don’t knowcan pick up, if they’re a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property."
First thing I did when I got my S3 was get a double sized battery (2900mAh) from Amazon. Hell, for $40 you can get a 7000mAh for it. http://www.amazon.com/warranty...
Apple's finally gotten around to playing catch up. Look, these phones, apple or android, are all just mini-computers with antennas that run apps. You're happy with overpaying for an apple phone, I'm happy with a capable android that has a replaceable battery/sd card. Got a double sized battery for it, have the original battery as a backup. And like you say, closer to parity. Whatever floats your boat.
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Sure, every little detail like the story being about 3D printing an entire automobile when absolutely no such thing has happened.
I wonder if you'll be as forgiving when you buy a new car...
And if you think a car has 40 parts, boy are you naive. Even my RC toys are more complex.
FTA: As you can see by the Vine clips we have posted within this article, it most certainly does! The car, which features just 40 parts, drove out of McCormick Place in Chicago just moments ago. As to what Local Motors plans to do next with the Strati 3D printed car, now that the vehicle has been printed and drives like a charm, they will seek to launch production-level 3D printed vehicles for sale to the public in the coming months.
There's 40 parts to the car. Did they print out a fully functioning electric motor and battery for it? Headlights?!! Give me a break! Man, some of you posters here that harp on every little detail can be a real drag.
You realize that screens already don't break unless they land screen side down on something pointed?
Micro-fracturing of SapphireGlass is the problem. Small cracks develop from the slight twisting of the phone's body due to it's extra hardness, which leads to full cracking of the glass. So a gasket to compensate for that stress seems to be needed, in my humble opinion.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...
Brilliant! Apple fanboys will call it a feature. Hidden screen smartphones.
Not the whole screen! Just a rubber/silicone gasket around the edges.
Couldn't Sapphire Glass still be used in phones, just by encasing it in a rubber gasket to absorb shocks?
Gorilla Glass by 2010 had been used in approximately 20 percent of mobile handsets worldwide, about 200 million units.[9] The second generation, called "Gorilla Glass 2", was introduced in 2012. On October 24, 2012, Corning announced that over one billion mobile devices used Gorilla Glass.[10] Gorilla Glass 2 is 20 percent thinner than the original Gorilla Glass.[11]
Gorilla Glass 3 was introduced at CES 2013. Gorilla Glass 3 is up to three times more damage resistant than Gorilla Glass 2, being better able to resist the deep scratches that weaken glass. It is also more flexible.[12] Gorilla Glass 3 is claimed to be 40% more scratch-resistant.[13] This is Corning's first glass to be designed through an atomic-scale modeling before anything was melted in laboratories, the optimal composition being predicted using rigidity theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
http://www.corninggorillaglass...
The glass consists of a thin sheet of alkali-aluminosilicate. Gorilla Glass is strengthened using an ion-exchange process which forces large ions into the spaces between molecules on the glass surface. Specifically, glass is placed in a 400C molten potassium salt bath, which forces potassium ions to replace the sodium ions originally in the glass. The larger potassium ions take up more space between the other atoms in the glass. As the glass cools, the crunched-together atoms produce a high level of compressive stress in the glass that helps protect the surface from mechanical damage.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/...
How Sapphire Glass is made...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Apple is creating its own supply chain devoted to producing and finishing synthetic sapphire crystal in unprecedented quantities. The new Mesa, Ariz., plant, in a partnership with sapphire furnace maker GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) of Merrimack, N.H., will make Apple one of the world’s largest sapphire producers when it reaches full capacity, probably in late 2014. By doing so, Apple is assured of a very large amount of sapphire and insulates itself from the ups and downs of sapphire material pricing in the global market.
In keeping with long-standing practice, Apple has never publicly discussed the Arizona project or what it intends to do with such a vast amount of sapphire material. Rumors and more or less informed speculation have flourished in that silence.
The Arizona project was revealed in November, with Apple paying $578 million for GTAT to install and run its advanced sapphire growth furnaces in a plant built and owned by Apple. The news triggered a frenzy of speculation that Apple planned to use sapphire crystal sheets to replace the glass currently used in touch displays for its 2014 iPhones, iPads or a new line of “wearables” such as the long-rumored iWatch, or all of the above.
That’s only the tip of Apple’s investment. Once the 253-pound “hockey puck” shaped sapphire boules emerge from the furnaces, they’ll be shipped to Apple’s supply chain partners in Asia, including Biel Crystal Manufactory and Lens One Technology Co., for slicing, polishing, laser cutting, coating and eventual assembly.
But to do all this, these companies, and Apple, will have to invest heavily in new equipment that can handle sapphire, since only diamond is harder, and handle it in the quantities that Apple will produce. That’s not a simple process.
Natural sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, a crystalline form of aluminum oxide. Corundum is colorless, but in natural sapphires, various impurities create a range of colors: chromium makes the gem red, becoming a ruby; iron and titanium create the prized cornflower blue of a true sapphire.
Synthetic sapphire is colorless, unless deliberately colored. GTAT’s ASF uses a variation of what’s called the Czochralski process, combining the melting of aluminum oxide, a seed sapphire crystal, and heat extraction to crystalize the alumina melt. [For more details, see the accompanying slideshow: “Why Apple’s sapphire plan is as hard as the mineral itself”] Like natural sapphire, the synthetic is incredibly hard and that hardness creates challenges for using it.
“When the [sapphire] area is larger, with the increased hardness, it takes more aggressive abrasives to grind and polish it,” says Jennifer Stone-Sunderberg, who has a Ph.D. in solid state chemistry and crystal growth, and now consults in this field as a managing director of Crystal Solutions of Portland, Ore. “It’s time-consuming to polish something that hard.”
Secondly, it means overcoming a surprising problem: despite its hardness, synthetic sapphire can be prone to fracturing, at almost any point in this finishing process, due to impurities or to the presence of unresolved strains in the crystalline structure.
“That’s something that’s being very carefully measured and tested,” says Stone-Sunderberg. “Fracturing is probably of the highest concern. If a product is released with a more expensive touch screen [cover] and consumers experience fracturing, they’re going to be highly disappointed. It would be devastating to the sapphire industry.”
Tackling these issues on this scale and schedule has never been attempted before.
“GTAT and the rest of the Apple supply chain involved in this new sapphire component indeed have to execute an unprecedented - for the sapphire industry - r
This may have been a large $$$ loss for Apple, the company has bet big on Sapphire Glass. Previous /. article, how-apples-billion-dollar-sapphire-bet-will-pay-off http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...
CNET also covers this well, noting SapphireGlass costs $30 per unit versus $3 for Gorilla Glass. From the CNET article...
Corning, which has repeatedly criticized the use of sapphire as a mobile-device display, says its testing found that though sapphire is harder to scratch than its Gorilla Glass, daily use of a sapphire display will produce tiny cracks in the material. Those cracks can easily proliferate and cause the display to break more easily over time than Gorilla Glass. As a major manufacturer of industrial crystals, Corning should know a thing or two about sapphire. It used to make tubes of it for high-temperature lighting during the 1960s and 1970s, according to Jeffrey Evenson, Corning's operations chief of staff.
"As material guys, we think Gorilla has a lot more potential," Evenson said, who added that glass is much easier to manipulate into different forms, such as with the rounded Gorilla Glass display of the new Samsung Note Edge smartphone.
http://www.cnet.com/news/why-t...
You that guy from Florida? The one who took the law into his own hands?
The landowner's claim raises some fundamental legal principles about the ownership of land and the airspace above the land. These principles have been developing over time. In early common law, when there was little practical use of the upper air over a person's land, the law considered that a landowner owned all of the airspace above their land. That doctrine quickly became obsolete when the airplane came on the scene, along with the realization that each property owner whose land was overflown could demand that aircraft keep out of the landowner's airspace, or exact a price for the use of the airspace. The law, drawing heavily on the law of the sea, then declared that the upper reaches of the airspace were free for the navigation of aircraft. In the case of United States v. Causby,[4] the U.S. Supreme Court declared the navigable airspace to be "a public highway" and within the public domain.
At the same time, the law, and the Supreme Court, recognized that a landowner had property rights in the lower reaches of the airspace above their property. The law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air navigation against the landowner's rights, declared that a landowner owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying land. In other words, a person's real property ownership includes a reasonable amount of the airspace above the property. A landowner can't arbitrarily try to prevent aircraft from overflying their land by erecting "spite poles," for example. But, a landowner may make any legitimate use of their property that they want, even if it interferes with aircraft overflying the land."[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
related dilemma: should we develop algorithms that can lip read? Of course we should, we should develop any tech. The real question is, will it be used for moral or immoral purposes?
I'm glad I learned ventriloquism as a kid.
Speaking to Oklahoma City University faculty and students, the justice said Thursday that technology has allowed devices to "listen to your conversations from miles away and through your walls." She added: "We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too."
The President Obama appointee also discussed the lack of privacy standards concerning drones.
"There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that’s happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don’t like the fact that someone I don’t knowcan pick up, if they’re a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
It's a low D note.
You might want to look at Google Voice, very cheap international calling rates.
First thing I did when I got my S3 was get a double sized battery (2900mAh) from Amazon. Hell, for $40 you can get a 7000mAh for it. http://www.amazon.com/warranty...
I'm guessing Apple didn't get modest gains, I'm sure they are making money hand over fist.
Pre-orders are large. Seems iPhone owners do want a large screen, despite years of Apple saying they didn't.
I can sell my 5s for more than I paid for including the cost difference for buying it on contract....
Yep, bet you can. Lot of suckers out there. Shame on you.
Not a 'hater'. I don't give a fluck what you use. Pay $800 for something that does the same thing as one that costs $200, that's your choice.
Apple's finally gotten around to playing catch up. Look, these phones, apple or android, are all just mini-computers with antennas that run apps. You're happy with overpaying for an apple phone, I'm happy with a capable android that has a replaceable battery/sd card. Got a double sized battery for it, have the original battery as a backup. And like you say, closer to parity. Whatever floats your boat.