Transparent aluminum?

[evangilder]

Sounds like the Star Trek movie, right? Well, it looks like it has become a reality! Check out this article:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/051018_new_glass.html

 

[Gnomey]

Really interesting stuff Eric. At the moment though it is two and half times the price of glass but I see this going into mass production before the end of the decade.

 

[syscom3]

That is some neat stuff.

 

[evangilder]

Yep, pricey for now, but that is not unusual for new technologies. I would imagine that it will become more prevalent. Cool science!

 

[trackend]

Clever stuff Eric as you say the price will come down, prototype materials always cost a bomb look at carbon fibre its a fraction of what it initially cost.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Intersting! 8)

 

[lesofprimus]

Yea yea... George Lucas already had this stuff back in the day... Its called transparsteel....

 

[Erich]

did anyone say cycling ? hmmmmmmmm invisible bikes...... ah very Kühl ! wonder how light it will be ?

8)

 

[trackend]

It will never catch on build a plane out of it and the pilot wont be able to find it. In a scramble all you'll see is guys in G suits running around the field with theirs hands streached out in front hoping to bump into their bird.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Like this?

 

[Gnomey]

 

[trackend]

Be a bummer trying to us the hud.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Hmmm I love that pic!