Glass gorillas in the willows

There seems to have a been a few stories of late discussing new technologies being developed in glass. The BBC recently ran a piece on Willow Glass  a new type of gorrilla glass as found in iPads and the like. Gorilla glass is a supertough glass and has found a use in many phones and tablet computers as it is superior to plastics.

 These days it's mobile technology that is the first port of call for glass technologies but many of these products can, and hopefully will, find their way into optics. Researchers have also been experimenting with pulsed lasers, shooting them at polymers to create ultralight, supertough glasses ( types of glass not specs).