Ever crack your cell phone screen? How about your car windshield? Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (The MythBusters) explain why those days may soon be behind us. Watch as they conduct mind-bending demonstrations of strong, durable glass. This is the Glass Age, where materials science is constantly pushing boundaries and creating new possibilities for glass-enabled technology and design. Do watch the video in full as they conduct mind-bending demonstrations of strong, durable glass.

Gorilla Glass, the current uncontested and undisputed leader in making tough glasses to secure your expensive smartphones and tablets might soon loose the title. A better much stronger, unbreakable and unscratchable glass made from the second hardest material after diamond - Sapphire, is already being used to cover the Camera lens of iPhone and should soon be used to cover full body of gizmos as costs come down with mass production.

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.