Apple obtains exclusive rights to custom, super-durable metal alloy

Appleinsider ^ | August z9, 2010 | Neil Hughes

[edpc]

Many parts of the radios I worked on in the Army were made of unobtainium.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Please don’t kill the kewt widdle blue smurfs Mr. Jobs just so you can make lighter gizmos for yuppie scum like me!

[Swordmaker]

Lighter, stronger, exclusive access to liquid metal alloys will make Apple Macs, iPhones, iPods, iPads, and other products stand out even more from their competitors—PING!

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Discuss hardware.
Don't attack people!

Apple gets exclusive Liquid Metal Contract Ping!

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[mamelukesabre]

carbon steel can be made extremely hard. I have a hard time believing this stuff is harder than that.

[bigbob]

Should make a dandy antenna!

[vox_freedom]

I’ll bet the batteries for them were hard to find, too.

[Oberon]

Rearden Metal.

[Nik Naym]

Dang! Beat me to it.

[GRRRRR]

Finally, transparant aluminum...we’ve been waiting quite some time for that voyage home!

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm sure it has many uses.

[Swordmaker]

Many parts of the radios I worked on in the Army were made of unobtainium.

Apple has nailed down exclusive rights to the rights to the liquid metals technology for use in computers, cell phones, and other consumer electronics. That makes these alloys the equivalent of Unobtainium for Apple's competitors.

[Secret Agent Man]

Get it down to about -300 kelvin and you can get it very strong.

[twhitak]

An iPad made out of unobtainium. It doesn’t work, but it dosen’t matter because you can’t get one.

[willgolfforfood]

I had a driver golf club made out of this metal in the mid to late 90’s. It mostly sucked. They sell for nickels and dimes in garage sales now. Interesting metal, though.

[Swordmaker]

carbon steel can be made extremely hard. I have a hard time believing this stuff is harder than that.

Believe it:

This stuff is TOUGH

[higgmeister]

Rearden Metal.

I knew it wouldn't take long.

[Richard Kimball]

iCop

[light-bulb]

You know how that ended... no one company should have the sole right to this... it’s just too good! :)

[mamelukesabre]

You aren’t showing me anything. iron based alloys have a HUGE range of hardness, tensile strength, and toughness. The fact that your chart shows TITANIUM as same yield strength as steel tells me your chart is no good.

There are steels out there approaching 300 ksi yield THAT I KNOW OF. And I’m no metalurgist.

*CAST* STAINLESS FOR ELASTIC LIMIT COMPARISSON? LOL, gimme a break! bogus chart there.