Apple is ready to mass production of "liquid metal"

In 2010, Apple received a "perpetual, worldwide, fully paid-exclusive permission to commercially use in the manufacture of electronic products "developed by Liquidmetal« liquid metal ", which is an extra strong alloy. Until Apple still made from this material a paper clip, opening SIM-card tray in some models of iPhone and iPad. But it seems that soon this may change ...

The imperfection of the technical process stops partners from mass production of more substantial parts, but that in the past: the US Bureau of registration of patents and trademarks granted Apple patent Method for manufacturing sheets of "liquid metal" thickness from 0.1 to 25 millimeters.

Note that in addition to the enviable performance of strength, this material boasts more and modest weight. If safe to assume that in Cupertino are planning to use Liquidmetal creation has for body iPhone 5S, One of the most significant innovations of the model is seen much reduced weight unit.

Also, one of the advantages of "liquid metal" is the ability to manufacture therefrom parts extremely complicated shapes. And here it is worth recalling the words of Atakan Packer (Atakan Peker) of Liquidmetal, which previously predicted that Apple will at first only do some components for its devices, after which the company will release a "revolutionary product", which is virtually impossible to copy... Maybe it about