Secret of Apples liquid metal purchase revealed.... omega watches?

[0roo0roo]

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[mshan]

Good commercial.

Very interesting and informative.

 

[TheStu]

I find it interesting that they called it O-meh-ga in the commercial, whereas I thought it was pronounced O-mee-ga.

Very cool though... I do wonder what they are going to do with this.

 

[0roo0roo]

heh well the lady was doing the hyper correct pronounciation thing.
like a sexy version of gladoss

 

[TheStu]

heh well the lady was doing the hyper correct pronounciation thing.
like a sexy version of gladoss

What's not sexy about a crazy AI that wants to murder you?

 

[slugg]

Although completely unnecessary, wouldn't you just LOVE to surf teh interwebs with a keyboard made out of this stuff? Ceramic and liquid metal QWERTY action. W00t!

The first thing I thought of was maybe Apple will use it to make the next-gen "body styles" of future macs. Perhaps any text that shows up on a machine will just be engraved and filled with liquid metal? Or maybe they're using it to make some kind of special circuitry that fits in very small spaces? Or maybe really cool looking employee name tags? The possibilities are endless...

 

[0roo0roo]

a kb with key letters that don't wear down would be neat, but it would cost a fortune lol, i don't see it, even from apple

 

[Mark R]

I find it interesting that they called it O-meh-ga in the commercial, whereas I thought it was pronounced O-mee-ga.

O-meh-ga is the correct pronounciation.

The greek name Omega, for the letter Ω, essentially means 'Big O' (Mega = big). The prefix Mega is routinely used in English and scientific language to mean big (or one million in SI unit terminology).

 

[Mark R]

I find it interesting that they called it O-meh-ga in the commercial, whereas I thought it was pronounced O-mee-ga.

O-meh-ga is the correct pronunciation.

The greek name Omega, for the letter Ω, essentially means 'Big O' (Mega = big). The prefix Mega is routinely used in English and scientific language to mean big (or one million in SI unit terminology).

In modern English usage, the pronunciation of the 'e' in mega tends to vary - some people pronounce it with a short e - meh-ga, and some a longer e - may-ga. If you really want to be pedantic, in the original greek, it was probably a pronounced more like or-mair-ga.

 

[TheStu]

O-meh-ga is the correct pronunciation.

The greek name Omega, for the letter Ω, essentially means 'Big O' (Mega = big). The prefix Mega is routinely used in English and scientific language to mean big (or one million in SI unit terminology).

In modern English usage, the pronunciation of the 'e' in mega tends to vary - some people pronounce it with a short e - meh-ga, and some a longer e - may-ga. If you really want to be pedantic, in the original greek, it was probably a pronounced more like or-mair-ga.

I knew that Ω was pronounced o-meh-ga, but I thought that the company Omega was pronounced O-mee-ga. I guess it is just the brits that pronounce it that way.

 

[KeypoX]

O-meh-ga is the correct pronounciation.

The greek name Omega, for the letter Ω, essentially means 'Big O' (Mega = big). The prefix Mega is routinely used in English and scientific language to mean big (or one million in SI unit terminology).

lol

I see you paraphrased wiki, but you didnt understand the first paragraph it seems.

I have always heard pronounced O - mega but i dont think that is proper. I think the correct is o mee - ga though i have never heard it pronounced that way. http://www.dictionary.net/omega omega \o*me"ga\

 

[theeedude]

It's also used in Head skis and tennis rackets. Sounds like it's metal that can be injection molded like plastic, so it would let Apple build the complex metal unibodies without having to CNC them as they currently do. Much better for mass production if your designs call for metal unibody.

 

[slugg]

It's also used in Head skis and tennis rackets. Sounds like it's metal that can be injection molded like plastic, so it would let Apple build the complex metal unibodies without having to CNC them as they currently do. Much better for mass production if your designs call for metal unibody.

Excuse my ignorance, because I really don't know anything about this... but why can't we melt aluminum and drop it into a mold while it's a liquid?

 

[herm0016]

Excuse my ignorance, because I really don't know anything about this... but why can't we melt aluminum and drop it into a mold while it's a liquid?

we do. its called casting. they could die cast most of that stuff pretty easy, but it would still take a bit of clean up. matchbox cars are "die cast" along with lots and lots of other things.

different forms of casting are used to make things like engine blocks and wheels too.

sensamp: It seems this probably only covers when you can bond the metal and ceramic together under high pressure, very similar to a metal matrix composite. The metal is squished into the pores of the ceramic on a microscopic level. Carbon ceramic brake rotors are made this way. This process seems to combine this with friction welding to get the final product. these processes are used in lots of different materials.

 

[0roo0roo]

It's also used in Head skis and tennis rackets. Sounds like it's metal that can be injection molded like plastic, so it would let Apple build the complex metal unibodies without having to CNC them as they currently do. Much better for mass production if your designs call for metal unibody.

I dunno, they are using steel alloy?
aluminum is softer. i figure there are ways to make similar if cruder appearance by simply carving the metal and then tossing a bit of paint/epoxy into the recesses, most things that look similar are probably made that way.

 

[0roo0roo]

O-meh-ga is the correct pronunciation.

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S-meh-gma?

 

[bigrash]

Nice commercial. Now I wanna get that watch.

 

[mshan]

According to Schroers, Apple could create intricate seamless enclosures by blow-molding the melted alloy like glass. The resultant structure could be thinner and stronger than existing Apple hardware enclosures.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/08/17/liquid-metal-used-in-iphone-3g-sim-tool-next-iphone-too/

 

[slugg]

According to Schroers, Apple could create intricate seamless enclosures by blow-molding the melted alloy like glass. The resultant structure could be thinner and stronger than existing Apple hardware enclosures.

I'm skeptical. The glass on the iPhone 4 is supposed to be stronger than normal glass, but it's failing pretty badly. Is this metal actually going to be stronger than normal metal?

 

[Sheninat0r]

a kb with key letters that don't wear down would be neat, but it would cost a fortune lol, i don't see it, even from apple

They already, or rather used to, exist. Old IBM Model Ms had keycaps made of two different shades of plastic, and some expensive mechanical keyboards today can be fitted with similar keycaps. They never wore out, but even for plastic + plastic (nevermind this liquid metal jazz) they were prohibitively expensive, and the Model M later switched away from the technique.