By Sharon Gaudin Posted on 9/9/2014

 

Go ahead and drop that phone.

OK, maybe not yet.

 

An engineer and researcher at Yale University has developed technology to enable manufacturers to easily build smartphone cases that are lightweight, thin and tougher than steel.

Jan Schroers, who teaches mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale, spent most of the past 10 years working to find a different approach to precisely shaping bulk metallic glass, which is a new generation of strong, pliable material that could be used for such products as protective device cases.

 

ComputerWorld/ full article and video here/ http://www.computerworld.com/article/2604431/yale-engineer-creates-smartphone-case-thats-3-times-tougher-than-steel.html