http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Maybe I'm just dumb...why does metal need to be bouncy?]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Naa its more likely that they will get stronger frames, just like the sandisk cruzer titanium which used to be made of liquid metal ;)

Just a shame that apple bought the company as they only assimilate and not develop :( If just IBM or Nokia had bought them]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Bounce reflects strength of the metal...

For example, If apple use liquid metal on their Macbook and iPhone, they can be thinner and lighter than now.]]>Aug 9th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
You're jealous.]]>Aug 9th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/I read about this material about 5 years ago I think and the company which created it was trying to make golf clubs as you got greater energy on each shot but were quite expensive.
Now if Apple bought the company to make cases, that will really give them an edge on building laptops. I guess you can find plenty of Aluminium laptops now and that is painful for Apple and their 'exclusive' image. Give them a different and unique material which nobody has and they will market it as a new technological advance on their cases.
Nice move.

]]>Aug 9th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Ok, so will I be able to stand on a macbook as if it's a lenovo with this new metal?]]>Aug 9th 2010 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 10th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 10th 2010 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 10th 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Read the article properly in future, k?]]>Aug 10th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Impact absorption without damage to the insides. So if you drop your Liquidmetal phone it will be less likely to break (but also bounce!).]]>Aug 10th 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Lighter and thinner is always nice as long as it doesn't dent easy.]]>Aug 10th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/No, they will absorb impact better.
But that video was INSANE. ]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
LESS energy is absorbed. The energy is returned to the object that is bouncing because there is a very high "coefficient of restitution."
This is a BAD thing for drop because the object being drop ped experiences 2X the acceleration over and over again.]]>Aug 9th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Actually, the energy is retained in the ball. Since it is not dissipated (generally as heat into the air or conducted into the surface) at impact, the speed of the ball from the elastic collision remains high.]]>Aug 9th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Yes, but that is what I mean. For a moment, when the velocity of the ball goes to zero, all the energy is stored in the elastic compression of the "liquid metal" and to a lesser extent the ball itself. Almost all of this energy is then returned as kinetic energy to the ball. There is little absorption of energy.]]>Aug 10th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/It isn't the components and their solder that I was worried about. In a simple, small, light system you are correct. However, in something like say an iPad or netbook (or larger) you have a number of independent bodies with mass (display, battery cells, main board, auxiliary boards, i/o connectors, wwan card, fan, thermal solution, etc...). These things want to move. Board to board connectors will shear off. Flex cables will pop off or tear. Components can get scraped off by a neighboring body.

When an object is dropped, its kinetic energy will be absorbed... by something. If the enclosure is not absorbing any energy, then the internals will. Don't get me wrong, an enclosure that does not get damaged as easily is not a bad thing, but I would prefer an enclosure that absorbs the energy instead of transfer it to the internals.]]>Aug 10th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Yup! Fair enough :)]]>Aug 10th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Actually the robots created T-1000 after skynet(and the rest of the world) was destroyed. All skynet did was build the network. Once again Apple is a step ahead.]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/maybe apple's $1 billion is the next step]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Do you think an AI who becomes self aware through the internet will have an unhealthy addiction to porn?]]>Aug 9th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/only if the AI has a male brain]]>Aug 9th 2010 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/I wouldn't bet on that, Jack. I know some very naughty ladies :)]]>Aug 9th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/with so many limitations, its not like the T-1000 or any other bots are gonna get far, now if microsoft made um, hell would break loose]]>Aug 9th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Nothing can give back 100% of the energy if they could find a way of making batteries out of this then they would last for ages, maybe the new iPhones/iPods will have a kenetic battery using liquid metal.
That would be wicked. ]]>Aug 10th 2010 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
When the case bounces (and keeps bouncing until it stops), that means the same amount of energy as above is slowly being dissipated over multiple bounces. Most of the energy goes to the bouncing and less of it is absorbed by the components. ]]>Aug 9th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Also an airbag will take all the kinetic energy of your head.
A laptop case would protect it's internals better if it breaks under impact rather then jumping around subjecting them to even more impacts.
Another example, a good old nokia phone, dropped from the 4th floor of a building, on concrete. At impact, it's case let loose all components inside, we had to search for them. But it was still working after this.]]>Aug 10th 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
But is it not a lie?]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/The balls' behaviour does not look realistic. It is as if the table (and the camera mounted to it) are oscillating in the vertical direction, giving the ball jumping in phase additional energy on each contact, while negatively affecting the out of phase balls' kinetic energy levels.
Or something like that.]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Aug 9th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/At about 30 seconds the bouncing started getting a little scary to listen to. ]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Sounds like my bed when i'm rubbing one out.]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/Yeah I was hoping for some explosion. xD]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Sounds just like the demonstration my calculus teacher gave us of what a limit sounds like.]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/09/apple-snags-liquidmetal-ip-may-just-revive-the-emac-with-an-amo/
Bed noise sex is so annoying.]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:57PM