A Day made of Glass
Almost a year ago we wrote about the first 'A Day Made of Glass' video by Corning. Now we bring you the second video in the series - an even more amazing look into our not-so-distant future and how the beauty and functionality of glass will play its role.
For such a massively used material, glass often goes fairly under the radar. We typically just associate it with windows and, well, that's about it.
But Corning envision a very different application for glass. They remind us that glass can just as quickly go from being a window to an interface; a wall to a screen. With touch controls becoming more mainstream and refined every year, the idea of being able to utilise every glass surface around us as a touch-controlled interface is rapidly moving from the realms of science-fiction to something much more tangible.
Corning imagines how the future of glass could impact on schools and education, they also hint at how specialised glass walls, tablets and equipment could be used in hospitals.
The most amazing thing about watching the Corning videos is just how possible it all feels. Almost every application shown in the videos exists in some form already - we're just not quite at this point yet.
If this is what the future will be, then I can't wait to get there!
Check out last year's 'Day Made of Glass' video.
Do you think Corning's vision for the future is realistic? How do you think the world will change over the next 10 or even 50 years?
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I can see the problem being more bandwidth than glass. How to you stream that amount of high definition, real time, synced to the environment data to the devices especially the one out in the forest. Unless the device itself holds the data already and computes the graphics itself but then its going to need some incredible processing power. The glass just displays the end result, the computing of that kind of information is mammoth and would be the real issue,
over a year ago by glenn -
Ah Glenn, is that where the National Broadband Network will help?
over a year ago by danial_ahchow
