Corning Gorilla Glass with Anti-Microbial Agent & USB3 and Thunderbolt Fiber Optic Cables - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital welcome to the Corning Booth where we are going to be having my
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lovely assistant show me just how dirty my phone is with is it sorry is it a TPA
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meter at ATP meter all right so basically what this does is it looks for
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any kind of organic material on the surface of the glass of my phone and
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tells me not necessarily how much of it is dead or alive but simply how much
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there is and I mean at a show like Vegas it's probably safe to say that some of
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it's alive and some of it is going to get me sick cuz I can already feel a
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cold coming on anyway so I'll let you go ahead and start swabbing the phone while
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we talk a little bit about the technology that is in corning's gorilla
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glass with antimicrobial agent now this watch right here in the top left has
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regular soda lime glass which is an inexpensive alternative to Gorilla Glass
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then in the bottom left we see what happens to that glass if you add as much
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antimicrobial agent as they did to their own glass it turns yellow which is
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undesirable from pretty much any perspective in the middle we've got
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corny and gorilla glass at the top for reference and then at the bottom with an
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antimicrobial film now this might be effective but unfortunately it gives a
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very hazy appearance to whatever's behind it in the top right we've got
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regular well not regular it's awesome regular Corning Gorilla Glass again and
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then on the bottom we've got that same glass with their antimicrobial agent and
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it is just as transparent and strong and flexible and all those great things as B
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before so something a lot of people don't think about so we're just having
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the the test completed over here is that is that their phone touches not only
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their hands but also their face and all kinds of crazy things you lend it to
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someone so it can be a um well I guess
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we'll find out basically that chart behind us is a summary of the people
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here at the show who have had their phones tested here at the booth so they
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we've had levels of ATP as low as kind of 11 to 30 and levels as high as
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Apparently one lady licked her phone and got a reading over 2,000 not something
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Corning or really anyone recommends but there you have it guys that's how uh
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that's how some people want to be about it so here we go guys let's find out
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just how dirty my phone is the ATP once the ATP meter finishes
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booting up guys we're not going to cut this cuz we want you to know that you know this is you know how how dirty or
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not dirty I happen to be in the meantime let's talk about what the antimicrobial
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agent actually does so we had to cut this here guys because we got to be very
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careful what we say this is the world world 's first EPA approved
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antimicrobial glass but that you know there are certain words we can't use but
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what we can say is you can be comforted to know that over the duration of the
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lifetime of your device whether you have a high rating or a low rating you can be
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comforted to know that the antimicrobial agent is always working Thunderbolt 2 my
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friends available on the Mac Pro actually available on some PC stuff as
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well is a very very versatile standard
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now it's 20 gbit per second which means you can connect all all kinds of great
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stuff including you know u high definition or even greater than high
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definition cameras capture devices external PCI Express enclosures and all
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kinds of crazy stuff like that but one of the limitations of Thunderbolt right
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now is that particularly with the copper cables available on the market distance
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is a problem so if you're setting up something like a little Mac Pro Studio
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workspace the 3 M maximum distance you can be away from the back of the PC with
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a copper cable might not be enough to have an efficient workplace so Corning
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with their expertise when it comes to materials is releasing Optical
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Thunderbolt cables that are capable of much much thinner form factors as well
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as much longer distances they have a 10 m cable now there's a 30 m cable coming
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very soon that's correct okay and then they're going to have up to a 60 M cable
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coming later this year now you probably know you know or you've heard somewhere
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that optimal optical cables can be very fragile don't worry about that guys
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they've got a demo here where they're taking their optical cable jamming it
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into tiny little holes tying it into knots they've got a laser pointer on the
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one end and you can see that on aside from the optical signal still passing
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through there is no leakage at any of those knots so it has still maintains
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its Integrity if it gets closed in a drawer closed in a door closed in a okay
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I'm I'm not going to say any other words that rhyme with that the point is that
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it will maintain its data Integrity pretty much regardless of what happens to it but that's not all guys
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Thunderbolt needs longer distance and thinner cables but so does USB 3 now to
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be clear this right here is not corning's product okay this is actually
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a copper based active usb3 extension cable it's a 15m cable it's extremely
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heavy made of copper and also very bulky
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for comparison my friends this is corning's usb3 compatible to be clear
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guys the USB 3 standard doesn't include anything about optical cables so they
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were kind of like well okay we're big company we can like engineer a solution
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here even though it's not in the spec so Corning is releasing their Optical us be
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three compatible cables in lengths up to 50 m and we can be expecting those later
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on in the year you can see they're obviously thinner obviously lighter and
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of course they're Optical so performance is going to be obviously better thank
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you well okay to be clear guys it'll still be 5 gbit per second or 10 GB per
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second or whatever USB 3 ends up becoming but better in terms of you know
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not having signal degradation over length which is why the copper one is so
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bulky there there I clarified that anyway guys don't miss any of our CES
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