The front sports a glass surface with three capacitive buttons and the back showcases the company's Crystal Reflection process -- an attractive patterned glass-like finish that's a bit of a fingerprint magnet.
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Finally the glass surface onto which the apparatus was attached was immersed into a liquid heated to 300C (572F).
So the researchers took advantage of the fibres' tendency to anchor themselves at defects on a treated glass surface.
The result was to convert the surface of a glass plate into the shape of a spiral staircase with 16 steps.
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They persuaded their frogs to expose a single toe and then slowly moved the glass surface on which this toe was standing.
While the build quality of our review unit is generally top-notch, the bottom-left corner of that glass surface is not perfectly flush with the body.
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Finally, the Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad T650 is a Magic Trackpad-style touchpad with a spacious glass surface, which seemed impeccably responsive during our brief hands-on with it.
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Getting into screen performance, it reflected a fair bit of ambient light, perhaps not the best display we've seen from Huawei -- there seems to be a space between the surface of the glass and the display itself.
The system uses a retractable device which is held briefly against the surface of plastic or glass packaging.
While the iNotebook is definitely a niche product, it's fun to use and more satisfying than writing on a glass tablet surface using a stylus.
This mixture is then spread onto a glass or metal surface and through photosynthesis, it keeps on generating electricity.
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At the heart of the technology is a micro-array consisting of thousands of microscopic spots of different sections of DNA deposited on a glass or silicon surface.
The non-scratch touch surface is made of reinforced glass with a hardness of 5.5 Mohs, to ensure it has the durability to withstand use in schools, hospitals, and public access areas.
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The sales of Gorilla Glass, the market leading display surface for smartphones and tablets, are also expected to rise around 5% sequentially.
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One previous study published in 2010, found that viruses could be easily transferred between your fingers and glass surfaces, similar to the surface on a smart phone.
And while that skinny little Touch keyboard for Microsoft Surface may be better than typing on a glass screen, it will be far from the gold standard for PC keyboards.
While Project Glass sounds super-cool on the surface, the idea is also kind of creepy.
The angular edges from before have been banished, replaced by a profile that curves up to meet a few millimeters worth of flat surface that then curves back again to meet the glass up top.
Initially, the idea was to use plastic flexible displays (as evidenced by previous XO 3.0 renders), but degradation caused by the sun's UV rays and plastic's easily scratched surface forced the company to switch gears and use glass instead.
The mirrors reflect light into the etched glass, producing a greenish, satiny wall surface.
Though that also makes it more flexible (and makes the ability to grind and polish the glass to create a light-capturing parabolic surface without actually breaking the thing all the more impressive), this flexibility can be exploited to keep the reflective surface in shape.
The AMOLED screen casing is constructed using a dual-injection molding process and tempered glass and results in a smooth, durable and scratch-proof surface that is aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable to the touch.
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The sea was not fifty feet below us, looking like shattered glass, great cracks of wind-lashed spray cutting diagonally across the jagged surface.
Since we tested the glass-clad model, in particular, we can speak to that more directly: the white surface picks up fingerprints but, as promised, it doesn't get scratched.
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