Check out the world’s first self-healing iPhone case!
Anyone who has ever dropped their Apple iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S will already know just how badly its glass exterior can cope with a nasty fall. With this in mind we draw attention to Nissan. The car company has developed the Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone case.
The Nissan Scratch Shield is extra special. It used self-healing paint that actually repairs scratches all by itself, changing back to its original form as if by magic.
The key ingredient is Nissan’s polyrotaxane-based paint, coated over an ABS plastic shell. The paint has a chemical structure that lets it change back to its original shape, filling any gaps caused by small scratches that heal in as quickly as an hour. It’s like something out of a science-fiction movie.
Another benefit, says Nissan is that the paint provides a gel-like easier to grip surface. So that should at least go some way to prevent unwanted drops. The Nissan Scratch Shield will not go on sale just yet as it is still in testing, with a possible view to launching the iPhone case later this year, should there be enough demand.
Nissan has already licensed the paint to NTT DoCoMo in Japan, so any launch is likely to be over there before we see the Nissan Scratch Shield in the UK. For the sake of iPhone users, fingers crossed we see the self-healing case in the UK, too.
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harry T18 January 2012
that's clever!
Report as inappropriateAttila19 January 2012
thats awesome i want it!!!
Report as inappropriatetony mcmanamon23 January 2012
wow!.... that would be cool on my car body, for all these numptys who wham-open their doors!
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