Weekly Tech Article: 4/22

The grand prize at this year's Geneva Inventions Show was Cheah Kok-wai, a professor from Hong Kong Baptist University, who came up with a way to make phone screens more durable.  His solution: a thin layer of sapphire over the screen.  The sapphire is applied with extremely high heat and, because of sapphire's properties, transparency is not affected.  Also, the layer is thin enough that touch screens are not affected.  Because sapphires are so rare, Kok-wai is in the process of accomplishing the same goal, but with quartz instead of sapphires.  To read more, click here.