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Materials: What exactly can Apple's new Liquidmetal do?

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The web is abuzz with news of Apple's acquisition of a company called Liquidmetal Technologies Inc., a onetime NASA collaborator whose namesake material is a fast-cooling alloy mix twice as strong as titanium.

We can expect tons of speculation on what Apple might do with such a metal, design-wise, and 99% of the rumors will of course be nonsense. But for an example of what can actually, and has been, done with this material, check out this manufacturing vid from watchmaker Omega:

via cult of mac

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