This is a perpetual exclusive license for electronic products.
Have a Driver made out of this stuff. Light as a feather, great distances, but has now been deemed illegal due to its 99% coefficient of restitution.
The new metals that Liquidmetal develops offer several benefits in strength, hardness, elasticity, corrosion- and wear-resistance, and acoustical properties.
Birra 3:37 pm on August 9, 2010 545 days ago Reply
According to Gizmodo (didn’t think I would ever reference them)
• 2.5 times the strength of commonly used titanium alloy with less weight
• 1.5 times the hardness of stainless steel with less weight
• 2-3 times more resistant to permanent deformation than conventional metals
• Non-corrosive
• Stain and rust proof
• Allows thinner walls in casings, with greater strength
• Allows for large surfaces maintaining thin skins without deformation
• Scratch resistant
• High thermal and electrical conductivity
http://gizmodo.com/5608322/is-apple-working-on-liquid-metal-terminators-or-what
Birra 3:40 pm on August 9, 2010 545 days ago Reply
BTW, Gizmodo has a LiquidMetal video that’s really cool. Shows the coefficient of restitution using bouncing balls. This video is the reason I bought the driver.
rastard 4:02 pm on August 9, 2010 545 days ago Reply
Isn’t LiquidMetal the stuff that T2 was made out of?
(shoot – your Gizmodo link already beat me to that)
Seems pretty amazing. I wonder what the practical application will be — something cool no doubt (the most common joke seems to be “drop your iPhone6 and it’ll just bounce back up into your hand”). Doesn’t seem like the strength differential would be important for iPods/IPhones/iPads (since the glass portions won’t be any stronger), and the weight differential would seem negligible for the case/housing of something as small as an IPhone.
Birra – how did the pricing on your driver compare to that of titanium alloy drivers?