Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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Good reasons to why Liquid Metal is not a good material for iphones, electronic devices or consumer products weighing more than a few ounces.

Your non-scientific test was honestly a great one and highlights the reasons why I ended up selling at break-even back in Oct 2012 at .28.

The material, IN MY OPINION, is too hard. Hardness is great for many applications but not so great when it is a housing that not only holds glass and circuit boards but also needs to be machined.

Liquid Metal transfers way to much energy. Aluminum and plastic may mar and dent but they also do a decent job of protecting a product during an accident. Great for a golf club head, not so for protecting phone innards.

The material is difficult to machine because of its hardness. For the near-term future electronics cases are still going to need holes, threaded or otherwise, to accept boards and jacks. A material as hard as Liquid Metal is more expensive to machine. There may be less machining but that may also not matter if the machining is slower and 4-times as hard on the dies.

When it does fail it does so spectacularly. Lawyers, generally speaking, do not like shards of sharp metal on the garage floor after the case takes that 'perfect hit' when dropped. Just ask your screaming wife if SHE would want to deal with those shards. :)

LQMT is still a watcher for me but not a buyer at this time.

Great test and post; thanks for sharing your results.