While the full-screen Sapphire Glass for smartphones could not become a reality, Gorilla Glass has came a long way since it's early days. Now, Corning has revealed their new Gorilla Glass 5, which ought to advance toward top of the line cell phones and other electronic gadgets not long from now in 2017. Gorilla Glass 5 is intended to enhance drop protection for gadgets that are dropped onto hard surfaces from midsection height to shoulder stature. Corning says the new glass can survive up to 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters.

While almost all high-end smartphones from Samsung, HTC, Nokia, LG, Motorola etc. feature the tough chemically treated "Gorilla Glass" technology from making there phones scratch and break resistant. The most talked about smartphone right now - the Apple iPhone 5 also features the "Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2" and you will be amazed to see how tough this glass is in the stress test video posted below.