Corning Gorilla Glass Technology Now Coming Into Touchscreen Laptops

Corning, a company which makes strong, scratch-resistant touchscreen glasses for your smartphones and tablets, is now bringing it's Gorilla Glass NBT panels to touchscreen laptops.

That amazingly strong Gorilla Glass on your smartphone now comes in a bigger size. On Monday, Corning introduced Gorilla Glass NBT, a stronger, scratch-resistant glass specifically made for touchscreen laptops. In a rather amusing video, Corning demonstrates the strength of Gorilla Glass NBT. Watch below:

And Corning said why its better than traditional soda-lime glass with the following features:

• 8x-10x higher scratch resistance
• Greater resistance to unsightly abrasions caused by cleaning, wiping or careless handling
• Reduced incidence of damage when inadvertently closing the display on top of an object
• Better ability to withstand the shock of accidental bumps

Corning said it is a cost-effective glass, and it will cost around one to two percent of the laptop's price.Margins on those devices are pretty slim already.

The Gorilla Glass product is becoming well-known and desirable on smartphones and tablets; it could be differentiating factor when choosing two similar notebooks in the future. Dell is already on board, saying it will introduce new laptops this fall with Gorilla Glass NBT.