“Toward the end of 2010, Apple entered into an exclusive agreement to license the use of Liquidmetal’s amorphous metal alloys with unique atomic structures, used to create products that are stronger, lighter, and resistant to wear and corrosion,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“Toward the end of 2010, Apple entered into an exclusive agreement to license the use of Liquidmetal’s amorphous metal alloys with unique atomic structures, used to create products that are stronger, lighter, and resistant to wear and corrosion,” Dilger reports. “Describing that transaction, Liquidmetal stated, ‘On August 5, 2010, we entered into a license transaction with Apple Inc. (“Apple”) pursuant to which (i) we contributed substantially all of our intellectual property assets to a newly organized special-purpose, wholly-owned subsidiary, called Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC (‘CIP’), (ii) CIP granted to Apple a perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, exclusive license to commercialize such intellectual property in the field of consumer electronic products, as defined in the license agreement, in exchange for a license fee, and (iii) CIP granted back to us a perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, exclusive license to commercialize such intellectual property in all other fields of use.'”
Dilger reports, “AppleInsider was first to discover that Apple was looking to hire a number of experts on amorphous metal alloys to build products using Liquidmetal’s technology.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Can’t wait for the indestructible iPhone T-1000 liquid metal model.
iTerminator!
I wanna have all of my teeth capped with this stuff.
I love the feel and finish of Apple’s “iMetal” and believe it is highly recyclable and used many other Apple products – deserving a place rightfully to Apple.
BUT — if you ever accidentally dropping your iPad on the road – hitting just one of its corners. The metal is very soft. It dents and damages easily. If it were made of highly resistant plastic; I doubt there would be a mark.
I have dropped my Panasonic camera many times in the same manner – it works perfectly today as does my iPad still does;
but these marks are permanent. It is not resistant to scratches dents or bumps and generally it is heavier then plastic too.
oooops, sorry, I obviously got this very confused with the aluminum metal Apple lathes for iPad and MacBook Pro.
Liquid Metal to also known as quicksilver or mercury.
ummm…no. While the element mercury (Hg) is liquid at room temperature, it is not to be confused with the metal alloy that this outfit refers to as Liquidmetal™, a trade name for the combination of elements that they’ve developed.
Mercury is one of those elements that we’re trying to eliminate from the production of consumer devices and fish food.
Yes, and this alloy is too pricey to replace aluminium in near terms. So Apple only does out of it an opener for SIM card dock.
I want to be the first person to drop a Liquidmetal MacBook Pro out of an airplane at 35,000 feet and video how many times it bounces off the ground. 😆
That isn’t going happen because I will be there to catch it.
BFF. That’s so sweet it makes sugar seem sour.
its a decoy. the real liquid metal is here: