Cool "future" concept - Page 2

TemplarKnight · 02-13-2011, 06:51 PM

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MikeGyver · 02-14-2011, 01:17 AM

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BigRob · 02-14-2011, 05:27 AM

Strong lack of fingerprints in the future.

They also forgot to make the bus stop graffiti and bird poop resistant.

Dave K · 02-14-2011, 02:22 PM

I like our new Gorilla glass commercials better than the look into the future one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUQEFL45Iko

The cool thing about Gorilla glass is that it's only 700 microns or so thick... so it's a LOT lighter when used in things like appliances and portable devices that the traditional option (Soda-Lime glass)... typically 3-4mm (or more).

Gorilla Glass was basically a new product for Corning just a couple years ago... this year they're predicting it'll be a billion dollar business.

96speed · 02-14-2011, 02:47 PM

That's an interesting way to chop a bell pepper. I might try that.

eyeoutthere · 02-14-2011, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave K

I like our new Gorilla glass commercials better than the look into the future one:

The cool thing about Gorilla glass is that it's only 700 microns or so thick... so it's a LOT lighter when used in things like appliances and portable devices that the traditional option (Soda-Lime glass)... typically 3-4mm (or more).

Gorilla Glass was basically a new product for Corning just a couple years ago... this year they're predicting it'll be a billion dollar business.

I like to see innovations like that from American companies. I am surprised corning hasn't rebounded more since the crash on 2000-2001. They have their hands in a lot of stuff.

From what I've read, they are one of the few companies that can supply the glass required to make LCD panels.

I'm not sure what their market share is in Fiber Optics but I would think that would be growing now that fiber-to-the-home is picking up.

Dave K · 02-14-2011, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by eyeoutthere

I like to see innovations like that from American companies. I am surprised corning hasn't rebounded more since the crash on 2000-2001. They have their hands in a lot of stuff.

From what I've read, they are one of the few companies that can supply the glass required to make LCD panels.

I'm not sure what their market share is in Fiber Optics but I would think that would be growing now that fiber-to-the-home is picking up.

Corning is the Primary player in nearly all the businesses they compete in. If we're not #1 then (all the mobile) employees knows to abandon ship - because that business will be sold off before too long.

All Corning's primary businesses are ones that we innovated (created in most cases)... from Light Bulb mass production (we designed a ribbon machine that was so fast at making incandescent bulbs that 2 of them could make all the bulbs needed in the world) to Optical Fiber, Telescope Mirrors and stepper lenses for the semiconductor industry (High Purity Fused Silica), Pyrex for labware, etc...

It's also a great company to work for.

AlwaysCode390 · 02-15-2011, 05:01 AM

I like the glass that tints itself ... that would be awesome in your car

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DAKMOR · 02-15-2011, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave K

Corning is the Primary player in nearly all the businesses they compete in. If we're not #1 then (all the mobile) employees knows to abandon ship - because that business will be sold off before too long.

All Corning's primary businesses are ones that we innovated (created in most cases)... from Light Bulb mass production (we designed a ribbon machine that was so fast at making incandescent bulbs that 2 of them could make all the bulbs needed in the world) to Optical Fiber, Telescope Mirrors and stepper lenses for the semiconductor industry (High Purity Fused Silica), Pyrex for labware, etc...

It's also a great company to work for.

really?

Dave K · 02-15-2011, 08:00 AM

Yea

donot_4get · 02-15-2011, 12:50 PM

Very Cool!

Does Corning need any Architects/designers?

Dave K · 02-15-2011, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by donot_4get

Very Cool!

Does Corning need any Architects/designers?

Not trying to recruit or anything (Unless you're a PhD Imaging Scientist... at which point I'll get shameless)... but all Corning positions anywhere in the world are searchable on our web site:.(http://www.corning.com/careers/curre...ies/index.aspx)

Software or Civil? I suspect if you're a "Architect" architect then most of Corning's work with your profession are contracted through outside firms. We do hire quite a few Civ-E's for Facilities and even some Process related activities, but likely not many full on Architects (though I'm not 100% sure).

Software Architects/Designers we likely hire a lot of... like any big multinational we've got lots of work for IT folks. We also hire Comp Sci folks into Engineering on occasion, depending on their prior experience (like if you're a Camstar dev for instance or have manufacturing systems experience).

For many years Corning was seen of as an uninteresting materials company (from a prospective employee perspective)... pans and plates, tube TV's and labware. Since the 1990's though things have changed, first with Optical Fiber and Telecommunications, Cellular Ceramics, and lately LCD Glass and spinoff products (like Gorilla). When I went out recruiting for Corning (on campus) in the late 90's we'd have a quiet table, 2 people could handle the load without too much difficulty. I went to Penn State then Cornell over the last couple weeks and in both cases the lines were crazy. We had 4 people at Penn State and 5 at Cornell, and rarely did the lines drop below a dozen kids over the course of the 6 hours of the fairs. Penn State got so bad that other companies booths were getting blocked by our line, 20+ kids. It was pretty surprising, but what the students were saying was that they'd talked to some other student who said their Internship at Corning was awesome, or they knew someone who worked for Corning and they said it was a great job.

As for myself, if they don't fire me I'll never quit... I've gotten to do exactly the sort of work that I enjoy (leading edge systems development projects), with budget to stay current on technology, and time each year for training. They sent me back to school for my MS degree, paying my full salary while I was gone (on campus) as well as all costs. They increased my salary by 50% over my prior job and it's more than doubled since then... without my having to threaten to leave. They benchmark their pay ranges against other similar companies (Research focused Tech) like Dupont, Lucent, etc... and that results in living here in rural NY with an urban pay scale.

When they're doing well they share it with employee's. Last year was very good, and my variable pay (Bonus, Performance Incentive, Stock Options) will account for maybe 25% of my compensation this year. Pretty sweet deal. overall.

06GTOm6 · 02-15-2011, 02:30 PM

Nice! Sounds like a great place to work for.. unlike the mighty gov't of Illinois.

dave89gta · 02-07-2012, 03:58 PM

Another day made of glass.

godofdragons · 02-08-2012, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JMiller

By today's standards, that seems very unrealistic, where competing manufacturers and developers, not to mention network problems, would render only a fraction of that amount of seamless integration possible. But then, the 10 year old version of me could only dream about technology that worked as well as what we have today. Give it 10-20 years and it just might happen.

Then again, there'll always be thugs to vandalize and bums to piss on the bus stop display.

I only see the integration being possible with either government intervention(in which case it might happen a couple hundred years from now) or from the tech giants like google or apple to 'force' a standard.