Motion brings durable Gorilla Glass to C5 and F5 tablets, tries to break it
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Oct 8th 2009 11:55AM
posted Oct 8th 2009 11:55AM
It's been a minute since we've heard from the gang at Motion Computing, but as always they've used the time wisely, quietly working to improve their beloved C5 and F5 slate PCs. If recent upgrades to Verizon EV-DO, WiFi n, 64GB SSDs and the like weren't enough to get you psyched for your next trip to the ER, the company is proud to announce that you can now order your tablet with some of that hardcore Gorilla Glass you've read so much about. Just how durable is the display, you ask? How would you like a video to demonstrate it? What if we told you that some vaguely U2-esque stock music provided the soundtrack? Go ahead, you know you want to -- it's after the break.
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Hmmm..
Well said! You accurately captured my own analysis of this technology, its benefits and constraints. You sir, are a sage.
That aside, I think the hardware, while cool, is the technological improvement that is least important in improving healthcare. Standard electronic information formats and migration to said formats are more important. Of course this isn't enDataformats.
Actually the hardware isn't even cool. I'm an engineer at a medical school and we bought one of those C5's for one of our projects and the thing is the biggest POS computer I have used in a long time. Unless that glass comes with an "anti-suck" coating, it's not going to help anything.
Does the F5 refresh web pages?
we all know that he's not looking at what she's holdin.
"And here you can see the cancer has spread to your lower...sir...SIR, please look up HERE at the display!"
Nurse: "What we see here is, what appears to be, a shark in your lower intestine. This would be the reason for the bleeding."
i was waiting to see who was going to make a shark comment, lol. that's the first thing i seen when i was looking at the picture... "you have terminal cancer, but check out this clip from shark week!"
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I can't see the video here at work - which just happens to be a hospital - which is also where we tried our own tests to break one of these. "Accidentally" rolled one down the stairs and it lived :D
I can see kids carrying one of these to school in lieu of a 40 pound backpack full of text books.
that'll be the day :S
we've 5th grade students carrying 8 books+ 8 notebooks + 1 rough-work register + .5 kg of pens/pencils + 1 kg of lunch + ~2kg bag + some other stuff in teh bag.
Thats over 10kgs per child. .. eBook Readers already plz.
Actually, I've done just that. My dad works for Motion and I got to play with one of the pre-release versions and it works very well for doing math homework on. If you can get the sea of people saying "Wow! What is that? Can I try it out?" away from you long enough to actually do any real work on it.
I think the solution to kids carrying more than they should is two fold. One, school's need to their part. Students should be allowed to access their lockers before and after every class to swap out materials. When I was in school we were only allowed to access out lockers before school started, on the way to lunch, and after school. Maybe, hopefully, that has changed for the most part. The schools need to teach their students that if they carry all of their books and whatnot all day long that there are consequences later in life. (In my case, before age 25). Part two is switching over to a digital format for books and notes. One tablet with all of the students books and notes, weighing less than 1 textbook. It just makes sense.
With school districts everywhere struggling with funding, get a bulk discount from Emory's dad and skip text books, notebooks and paper in general and put everything in the cloud accessible by wifi. Kids might actually like doing homework as mine spends every waking hour looking at a screen anyway.
I used a Motion tablet all throughout college -- it was awesome, for both my back and my grades.
But how much if you want to opt for the Orangutan glass? Actually, i have been check-en out the Bonobo (Pigmy Chimp) glass for a while now, decisions, decisions.
I wish MY doctor read me Cracked...
Of course, when that metal ball hit the glass on the rebound, it cracked. They forgot to show that part...
That test case only shows 50% of a real world problem.
That's exactly what I was going to say. Many times when I drop something it doesn't break until it bounces first.
http://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/index.aspx
According to the site, Samsung has placed an order for Gorilla Glass to be used for Samsung UltraTOUCH mobile phones. Also mentioned is that Gorilla Glass was designed into the Dell Adamo.
When he went to his doctor, claiming he had cracked under pressure at work, I think her search came up wrong. She seems to be rolling with it rather well.
Does that image in the lower left section of the screen mean they "jumped the shark"? Google it.
Questions:
* how fast was the ball moving?
* why did they not show a pointed object striking the glass?
* what does it take to break Gorilla Glass in an application like this?
Just wondering...
Terry Thomas
Atlanta, Georgia USA
Manufacturer's promo video: http://www.corning.com/uploadedFiles/Corporate/Gorilla_Glass/Assets/Video/Gorilla%20Glass_300k.wmv
Manufacturer's product information sheet: http://www.corning.com/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=26021
Dont give up the tech support day job Terry