Fears that Apple’s recent IP licensing from Liquid Metal technology company, um, Liquidmetal Technologies, would immediately lead to Terminator Phones, might one day be realised, but for now, maybe we’ll have to settle for something a little less exciting. Like say, a SIM-tray ejection tool?
Seems that Apple wanted to test the light, strong, rigid material, but ran foul of their own stringent “two-supplier” rules, which protects their supply lines against a single supplier going down and crippling production. Problem is, no-one else makes this stuff. Oops. So it was decided to test on a non-essential part. The SIM-tray ejector pin. Imagine the co-inventor of the metal alloy, Atakan Peker’s surprise when he opened his iPhone 3G and found the ejector pin: “That’s my metal,” he said. “I recognized it immediately. Take it from an expert, that’s Liquidmetal.”
Guess we’ll just have to wait a little longer for the iPhone “Terminator” edition …
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