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Google Wants To Forget It Ever Tried To Sell Humans Google Glass
After many months of silence, Google’s finally scrubbed the internet clean of its weird wearable consumer experiment known as Google Glass. Spotted by 9to5Google, Glass-related accounts on Google+, Twitter and Instagram have been shutdown with only Google+ giving any kind of parting farewell.
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Video: Making A Handmade Glass Bottle From Sand Is So Hard
The concept is easy enough to follow: find sand, melt the crap out of it at over 1093 degrees Celsius, and then watch sand turn into glass. But when you want to do something with that molten glass like say, make a glass bottle, it gets so much harder. You have to juggle so many…
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There’s A Glass Shortage, And It’s Dramatically Slowing Down Building Construction
When the recession hit the US eight years ago, the construction industry ground to a halt — and with it, the suppliers of building materials like glass. Now, boom-time architects and developers have a problem: There isn’t enough glass to go around.
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A New Paint Made From Glass Reflects The Sun To Cool Down Cars And Homes
The sun’s harsh rays don’t just turn metal surfaces into flying pans, they can also accelerate deterioration and corrosion, and make it harder to keep structures cool. So researchers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory created a new type of paint made of glass that reflects those rays away.