beans, rice, some veggies, a little chicken

gorgol sometimes it's more profitable to play who plays the penny stocks than it is to play the stocks you think will go up 1000%. I'll take my 20-50% time and again (on average 2 times a year) It doesn't mean I don't hold shares at a higher price just means I still got time and money to make before I decide how much write off I need at the end of the year.

Shorters may just be driving the price down as day traders, or bigger players even to drive the company out of business. Mature shorts may actually see this as a longer term strategy, the company will fail to deliver. In my view, the way to avoid all this as an outside shareholder, is to use the volatility of the shareprice to establish a zero cost basis. Then see who wins and pays the shareholder, capital gains or dividends. Most people here it seems to me are enraptured by the technology itself, Apple potential, and the Li deal, none of which has elucidated a clear path to money in our pockets.

SHORT VOLUME vs SHORT INTEREST:

The problem appears to be a lack of understanding the difference between short VOLUME and short INTEREST.

Short volume is meaningless data on this market, it's well known that Short Volume does not equate to a short position. This is a Two Tier market - that is when a market maker must be used to complete a trade transaction, the initial leg is always going to be marked short.

However that doesn't include the last leg which completes the transaction as closed, REG SHO awaits the settlement period of T+3 days, that's Federal Law.

Stating short volume is Shorting, a Short position, or Short interest is FALSE, purely misinformation. End of story.

Depressible Keys with Decoupled Electrical and Mechanical Functionality

Abstract
Systems and methods for decoupling the electrical and mechanical functionality of a depressible key are disclosed. The depressible key can include a non-contact proximity sensor, such as an optical sensor, to detect motion of the keycap. The output from the optical sensor is used to determine a distance, velocity, acceleration, and a force applied during a keypress.

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[0117] FIG. 4A depicts an example implementation of a depressible surface 400 with decoupled electrical and mechanical functionality.

[0118] The depressible surface 400 can be mechanically supported accordance with some embodiments described herein. In other cases, the depressible surface 400 can be rigidly supported along its edges, corners, and/or entire perimeter such that the depressible surface 400 can bend or deflect in response to receiving a downward force at the top surface 402 (see, e.g., FIG. 4B). As with other embodiments described and depicted herein, the supports that can be provided with various implementations of the embodiments depicted and described with reference to FIG. 4B are omitted from FIG. 4A-4B for clarity.

[0119] For example, the depressible surface 400 can be supported by a travel mechanism and a tactile feedback structure. As with other embodiments described herein, the support structure associated with the depressible surface 400 can vary from embodiment to embodiment. For example in one embodiment a travel mechanism can be implemented as a butterfly joint or a scissor joint and a tactile feedback structure can be implemented as an elastomeric dome. In some embodiments the support structure of the depressible surface 400 can take other forms. Accordingly, for simplicity of illustration, components and elements associated with the mechanical (and tactile) features and functionality of particular implementations of the depressible surface 400 are not depicted.

[0120] The depressible surface 400 can also include a number of non-contact proximity sensors implemented as the optical sensors 408a through 408n. One may appreciate that in other embodiments, a greater or fewer number of optical sensors can be included. Further, although the optical sensors illustrated in FIGS. 4A-4B are depicted as evenly distributed below the top surface 402, such a configuration is not required in all embodiments. For example, in some embodiments, the optical sensors can be distributed below the top surface 402 in two dimensions (e.g., a matrix, array, spiral, or other pattern or distribution).

[0121] In many embodiments, each optical sensor 408a-408n can include one or more light emitters and one or more light detectors.

[0122] As with other embodiments described herein, the one or more light emitters of each optical sensor may be configured to emit light in an invisible spectrum such as infrared. In other examples, the one or more light emitters of each optical sensor may be configured to emit light in a visible spectrum, such as white light. In some examples, the one or more light emitters of each optical sensor may be configured to emit light in a selectable spectrum, emitting infrared light in a first mode and emitting visible light of a selected color and brightness in a second mode. In many cases, each optical sensor 408a-408n can control the mode of the one or more light emitters of each optical sensor.

[0123] In one embodiment, one or more light emitter of each optical sensor 408a-408n can illuminate the underside of the top surface 402 through an aperture in the housing 404. In many examples, the aperture can be sealed with a cover. In some cases, the cover can be made from a rigid and optically transparent material such as plastic, glass or sapphire. In some embodiments, the cover can affect one or more optical properties of the light passing therethrough. For example, in some embodiments, the cover can focus, diffuse, or filter the light passing therethrough.

[0124] Once light from the one or more light emitters of each optical sensor passes through the cover, the light may reflect off one or more portions of the top surface 402. For example in one embodiment, light can reflect off one or more portions of a mechanical support structure. In other cases, the underside of the top surface 402 can be optically reflective. For example, in some cases, the top surface 402 can be implemented with an optical reflector formed from a reflective material disposed on, adhered to, or molded within or into the top surface 402. In one embodiment, the optical reflector may be a polished metal, glass, crystal, ceramic, or plastic material. In another embodiment, the optical reflector can be an optical minor. In other examples, the underside of the top surface 402 can be treated so as to be optically reflective. For example, in one embodiment the underside of the top surface 402 can be polished. In many cases, the optical reflector can encompasses entire underside of the top surface 402. In other examples, the optical reflector can encompass only a portion of the underside of the top surface 402........................

Apple's Use Of Liquidmetal, Part 2

Lots of smoke, doesn't always mean there's a fire

by Abdel Ibrahim
October 18, 2016

We still don’t know if Apple plans to use Liquidmetal on a major product. Nonetheless, evidence suggests Cupertino plans on using the breakthrough material somewhere soon.

Several months ago I wrote a piece about the potential use of Liquidmetal in the next-generation iPhone, set to debut in 2017. In my article, I discussed some of the rumors.

On the latest episode of ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast) John Siracusa, Casey Liss, and Marco Arment speculate on the next material Apple might use. This comes on the back of a great piece Greg Koenig, an industrial designer and co-founder of Luma Labs, wrote on why Apple is very unlikely to use ceramic in the next-generation iPhone, mostly due to the issues with production:

More bluntly, not only is Apple not using any new ceramics manufacturing technology in the new Watch Edition, they are not even utilizing the primary patent the original Quora article pins most of it’s extrapolations on – that patent described a vacuum liquid slurry casting process for ceramics. The Edition watch uses a very common pressed powder forming method.

In short, not only does the ceramic Watch quash any hopes of a ceramic iPhone, I think it actually indicates that Apple isn’t chasing down ceramics for iPhone production any time on the horizon.

I agree with Koenig. Apple’s use of ceramic in the Watch is not indicative of the company using it on the iPhone. Apple claims it takes nine days to make one of those shiny white ceramic cases for the Apple Watch Edition. There’s simply no way to efficiently scale that up to making over 200 million iPhones a year.

That being said, I’ve been digging around and I think there’s more evidence suggesting Apple is getting close to using Liquid Metal, perhaps for the next iPhone.

Here’s what I’ve found:

First, in an interview on Business Insider in 2012, Atakan Peker, one of the inventors of Liquidmetal, believed that Apple would likely use Liquidmetal in a “breakthrough product.” He also said that Apple would likely spend between $300 and $500 million to mature the technology and that it would take roughly three to five years. Five years from 2012 is, wait for it, 2017.

Apple's R&D Spending
Apple's R&D Spending

Credit: Above Avalon
Second, Neil Cybart from Above Avalon has been keeping track of Apple’s R&D spending over the past few years. Something fascinating is happening: Apple is spending a ton of money. In fact, they’re on track to spend more than $10 billion in R&D in 2016 alone, according to Cybart. Now, he believes that much of the R&D expenses have to do with Project Titan, Apple’s car efforts, but perhaps some of that money is also being invested in new materials and on new manufacturing techniques.

Third, Liquidmetal has partnered exclusively with manufacturing equipment maker Engel, which many consider the leader in injection molding. If something of quality has been injection molded, it’s probably used an Engel machine.

Now think about that for a second. Liquidmetal has an exclusive partnership with Engel to make manufacturing equipment and Engel is the leader in injection molding. On top of that, in order to get one of these Engel Liquidmetal machines, you must have a license from Liquidmetal technologies. Guess who has one? Apple.

Liquidmetal machine exclusively built by Engel
Liquidmetal machine exclusively built by Engel

See the image above? That big green machine is the exclusive Liquidmetal machine. Koenig tells me the white one on the left is a DMG Mori Milltap 700, which Apple has been strongly rumored to be using as its primary production CNC mill. Coincidence? Maybe.

Koenig also tells me that “it makes sense that the Liquidmetal machine would have a Milltap 700 set up next to the Engel; freshly made Liquidmetal components still need minor milling operations to remove runners, drill precision holes, and tap threads.”

Engel is a private, family-run business. Finding out investor information is not easy. This may benefit a super secretive company like Apple because there is no public information on how many machines they’ve sold. A ramp up in sales might give that way.

Other small interesting tidbits include some of the comments from Ming-Chi Kuo who says that Apple plans to make a phone with a “curved glass casing.” Again, maybe Apple does plan to go back to something like Gorilla Glass. But for some reason, I think he’s mistaking glass for Liquidmetal. I say that because Liquidmetal is technically known as a “bulk metallic glass”, something I mentioned in my previous post.

Now, of course, I could be wrong and all of this information could turn out to mean nothing. But something tells me we’re on the brink of seeing a major shift in the use of materials. Apple has been investigating and patenting the use of Liquidmetal since 2008. It’s hard for me to believe that nearly a decade of this would go by without seeing it used in some major product.

For now, all we can do is wait.

it is a crashing bore around here

it's more profitable to play who plays the penny stocks

With the recent alliance of Eontec and Liquidmetal, we can expect to see a very fast adaptation of this new alloy and that is going to happen any minute from now.

Quote:
Apple Granted 40 Patents Today with One Revealing that Liquid Metal is used in all iDevice Home Buttons


So I guess all 40 patents from this article are in production.

Apple Granted 40 Patents Today with One Revealing that Liquid Metal is used in all iDevice Home Buttons

Professor Li Yangde acquired Liquidmetal Technologies Inc

Yian Technology major shareholder Professor Li Yangde liquid metal technology company acquired Liquidmetal Technologiesinc, (the LQMT) after the synergies and strategic deployment:

LQMT's existing strengths are:
1, the patent advantages: LQMT is the world's top bulk amorphous metal research and development and commercialization of enterprises, with the world's most core, most comprehensive block of amorphous metal-related intellectual property rights, is also the United States Apple in bulk amorphous Metal materials and technology (LQMT from 2010 to allow Apple in the field of consumer electronics products, exclusive use of its amorphous metal materials, all patents and intellectual property), and Apple to establish a direct research mechanism.
2, visibility: the term liquid metal by the United States liquid metal technology company founded and exclusive use of LIQUIDMETAL this trademark. But also the global industry standard-setter, in the market visibility is near monopoly.
3, sales advantages: Apple, Microsoft, Google and other large corporate headquarters, CMF and design departments are in the United States, LQMT in the promotion of massive amorphous have inherent advantages.
4, the market segmentation advantages: LQMT and Vertu, Omega, and other luxury brands have had close cooperation for the development of the luxury market has its unique market advantage. Is also actively developing medical equipment, aerospace, automotive, audio and other markets.

Yian technology advantages:
 1, technology and R & D strengths: Yian Technology has more than 20 years of new materials research and development, mold, machinery preparation, molding and production experience, with a complete industrial chain. In the field of metal materials have a very high status. And the Institute of Metal Research Institute of the close integration of technical problems have excellent solutions for capacity. In recent years, in the domestic top amorphous expert technical support, the successful development and production of large-size bulk amorphous products, is by far the world's only one can be announced with a large-size large-scale amorphous metal forming capacity of enterprises.
 2, the market advantage, China is the world's production base for a variety of industries, especially consumer electronics, auto parts, tool governance, audio, sporting goods, medical equipment, with Yian technology for many years of customer precipitation visibility, Of the product, the market is very easy to open up, once the pioneering, will be explosive growth.
 3, the capital platform, Yian technology with the A-share market in all aspects of contact, easier access to financing, to further expand the scale of production and market share.
 4, the industrial chain advantages: Yian technology holds a large amorphous alloy industry chain in the key areas, including raw materials, patents, molding equipment, continuous development and improvement of the continuous development of machining technology, surface treatment process development, etc. , The autonomy of these processes to ensure that security technology in the field of amorphous long-term industrial chain advantage.

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The impact of equity investment on listed companies:
 In order to avoid competition in the industry, Prof. Li, the controlling shareholder of Yian Technology, has signed an agreement to transfer all the rights and interests obtained during the cooperation with LQMT unconditionally to Yian Science and Technology.
1, in production technology: LQMT is the world's most famous amorphous metal research institutions, almost monopoly of the world's core amorphous metal material formulations, key processing technology and other related intellectual property rights. Due to the lack of mold design, equipment design and other mass production technology, has so far been limited to the production of small products.
Prof. Li Yang-te, after joining LQMT, will consolidate the resources and intellectual property advantages of two of the world's leading amorphous enterprises to further strengthen the amorphous metal production technology, will accelerate the commercial application of amorphous metal and promote the revolutionary breakthrough of amorphous metal.
2, in the market and operating areas: LQMT and Apple has built a research team, previously confined to the materials R & D, and Yian science and technology cooperation, Yian will provide the amount of machinery and equipment and production technology, the three parties to jointly develop new products application.
In addition to Apple, and SWATCH company's watch industry, LLPG luxury goods industry, and golf, racket and other sports equipment, medical equipment, automotive, intelligent equipment, audio, robots, etc., there will be leap-style development .
3, Industry Standardization: Yian Technology will work with LQMT to formulate the standard of bulk amorphous industry, such as: bulk amorphous material standard, bulk amorphous process standard and so on, to promote the standardization process, to further promote the development of the industry. .
4, amorphous materials factory: In the development of industry standards, the technology will be combined LQMT Yian technology, to start building block amorphous raw materials factory, in order to expand production capacity and industry promotion in preparation.
5, amorphous equipment factory: Yian technology with LQMT, Engel and domestic machinery and equipment manufacturers to work together to develop the next generation of massive amorphous production equipment, and the establishment of standardized equipment factory.

Our eyes are sensitive to light which lies in a very small region of the electromagnetic spectrum labeled "visible light". This "visible light" corresponds to a wavelength range of 400 - 700 nanometers (nm) and a color range of violet through red

When should this tank?