Future Phones to be Protected in Diamond-like casing
January 31, 2007
Tired of getting your your handsets scratched from accidental bumps or falls? Not willing to get a bulky protective casing for it? Well, in the near future, you might not need to.
Nokia of Finland are experimenting on a way to give their phone casings a little more protection by coating their phones with a diamond-like substance created with graphite plasma. An electric current is fed through coal graphite, which creates plasma. This plasma is then directed towards the casing to be, well, encased via high-voltage elctrodes. The plasma penetrates the plastic surface and bonds with it to form a diamond-like coating just shy of 100 nanometers thick. The coating is both durable and anti-static, repelling dust and dirt. What’s more, if and when the owner decides to throw the phone away, the thin coating is biodegradable.
Apple have also been working on a technique to further protect their phones by extruding a Zirconia ceramic into the phone’s case shape instead of coating a plastic case. According to available documentation from Apple, the coating does not affect reception.
[ Diamond-like Coating Will Protect Future Phones via PhoneScoop ]
