The razor-thin, shatter-resistant touchscreen of your iPhone is the result of engineering genius and happy accident, wrote Bryan Gardiner in "Glass Works" (issue 20.10). Many readers were blown away by the inside look at how Gorilla Glass came to be. "We tend to curse the glass in our cell phones if we drop them, but we rarely stop to think about how wondrous it is," tweeted @aurich. On Wired .com, matsejsr wrote, "I'm a materials science and engineering undergrad, and this might be my favorite wired article ever."
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