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cordedpoodle

02/21/12 2:10 PM

#1988 RE: Pennylicious555 #1984

Back of the iPhone 5 > good possibility. They could use a stamped product for this. Apple does not like the glass breaking in the current phones. Aluminum scratches easily.

Back of the iPad 3 > long shot. I think they really need a injection molded product for this and I think one of the big problems injection molding liquidmetal is size. Problems multiply geometrically as sizes go up.

Fuel cells > long shot. Although apple would love to do this I doubt the technology is there. There are fuel cell phones out there but they are big and clunky. I also wonder why liquid metal would enable them to produce fuel cells when other alloys that do not have to be amorphous are going to be cheaper. Nope I think this is possible but not very probable. Apple already breaks its batteries up into compartments to fit in its devices, they don't need liquidmetal to do that.


There is a fourth possibility that is rarely mentioned. That would be using liquidmetal in the iPod Nano

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_nano

which still sells pretty well. Nothing like the phone but most businesses would probably kill to have this business. As you can see its almost jewelry, particularly for younger people. It comes in colors. Liquidmetal comes in colors. But aluminum doesn't take holograms and it scratches. These would be small enough for an experimental model, and not a huge gamble like the iPhone.