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Cult of Mac meets up with Corning at CES to talk about its new anti-microbial Gorilla Glass
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Alex here with Colt of mac and I'm here
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with Corning who are one of the
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suppliers for Apple's iOS devices
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they're a huge glass maker and they're
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here at CES because they have a new type
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of glass to show off to us what's it
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called it's antimicrobial Corning
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Gorilla Glass I don't know how to say
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that but it s it sounds really Hightech
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what does it do it's got ionic silver
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which is a well-known antimicrobial
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agent it's embedded in the glass surface
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it'll be antimicrobial for the lifetime
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of the device and it has all of the
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properties of Gorilla Glass the
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mechanical properties that you know of
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the strength the damage resistance it's
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got the optical Clarity of Gorilla Glass
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it has all the dialectric properties of
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Gorilla Glass it is the first cover
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glass uh that has been registered with
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the United States Environmental
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Protection
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Agency okay so so what does it does it
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clean my green I mean what what is what
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does it actually
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do the glass has ionic silver and the
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ionic silver basically comes out of the
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of the glass and when bacteria are are
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there on on that uh touch surface what
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it will do is it'll reduce the bacteria
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on the touch surface and it'll do that
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through the lifetime of the device 24/7
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okay so you're literally cleaning the
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device just by the property of the glass
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itself so like my iPhone that gets all
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groy throughout the day because I'm
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touching it and feeling it that's G to
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it's going to be cleaner than it
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normally would just because of the glass
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that's so what it does is it reduces the
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the bacteria on the surface it does not
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necessarily remove fingerprints and
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other kinds of oily matter that there
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it's basically reduces bacteria okay
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okay so I I have here my iPhone that
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I've touched up in all the ways that I
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love to do and um it's really nasty
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right now and what Joy deep is going to
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do is do a test on to show me all of the
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germs that are on it and uh it's not
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like a full bacteria test but it's just
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going to show me generally how nasty I
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am is that is that right is that a fair
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analysis so what yes I think you said
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you said it basically does not measure
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germs it measures all organic
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contamination on the surface okay so
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we're going to see how contaminated my
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iPhone
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is so it's it's it's going to it's going
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to be pretty contaminated I can already
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tell you but can we can we run the test
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sure we can okay let's come over
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all right and now you can see me swab
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it um it's hard to say
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because that's it we make sure we return
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it to you uh clean okay so we now put
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this back here break the seal release
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the
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reagent shaky shaky shaky shaky shake it
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a
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bit it back
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in
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close hit
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okay and our countdown
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begins 3 2 1
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and oh wow is that is that pretty bad
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that's really bad it I licked it before
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I did it so that that's really bad that
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is the record for the really B that's
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the record we broke you broke the record
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Buster's phone broke the record at
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coring dirtiest phone at CES dirtiest
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phone at CES all right well thanks joyy
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appreciate it here with
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Corning
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oh
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