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A few years back, one of our embeded staffers was dropped off outside an austere TOC. He unloaded his gear and went inside to meet his POC. When he came out a few minutes later, the sun was down and he couldn’t see his gear. As his eyes adjusted to the dark he finally found his freshly flattened pack. A humvee driver must have been taking a pull from his can of Monster and driven over the gear in the dark, trashing his laptop screen.
Gorilla Glass might have saved him from buying an overpriced HadjiBook at the PX. Manufacturers should use this stuff in any deploying gadget. Laptop screens, BFT/FBCB2 gear, PDAs, GPS… it might even save some weight if it can be used as a flashlight lens. If the stuff is optic quality, it could even find it’s way into eyepro and weapon sights.
Thanks, Gizmodo.
