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Nissan self-healing iPhone case is tremendously cool

By on January 16, 2012 at 3:27pm in Mobile News


A few years ago, Nissan introduced a form of self-healing car paint that would, over time, mend small scratches and scrapes to the outer layer.

Nissan has now introduced an iPhone case painted with the same polyrotaxane material where “the chemical structure is able to react to change back to its original shape and fill the gap – ‘healing’ the blemish.” Bad scratches can take a week to heal, but most small blemishes are gone within a couple hours.

The case itself is made from high-grade ABS plastic which is more rigid and harder to snap than traditional polycarbonate-based materials.

Right now Nissan is beta testing the material in Europe, and has allowed NTT Docomo to outfit their phones with it, with a view to affixing it on more devices if the trial is successful.

Can you imagine a Gorilla Glass 2/Nissan Scratch Shield combo? The future looks, and feels, good.

Source: Nissan
Via: The Verge

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Discussion

15 comments for “Nissan self-healing iPhone case is tremendously cool”

  1. Wish my car and phone had that. :(

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    Posted by Wia | January 16, 2012, 3:32 pm
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  2. Make one for Galaxy Nexus too please!

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    Posted by Al | January 16, 2012, 3:38 pm
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  3. Outstanding. Humans are too damn smart. Go us!

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    Posted by Mattprime86 | January 16, 2012, 3:39 pm
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  4. Wow, i’ll take 3 right now please (2x4s and 1x3gs). They look they they would be perfect for me.

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    Posted by Drock | January 16, 2012, 3:52 pm
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    Posted by t | January 16, 2012, 3:52 pm
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  6. Paint my phone in polyrotaxane and I don’t need a case.

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    Posted by Jerry | January 16, 2012, 4:10 pm
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    Posted by I forgot my meds | January 16, 2012, 4:17 pm
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    • Dont know if you noticed, but this case is for iphone users, ya f*****g moron…

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      Posted by Sage | January 16, 2012, 4:26 pm

  8. Cool technology, but the case isn’t good looking at all.

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    Posted by NienorGT | January 16, 2012, 4:44 pm
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  9. IT’S ALIVE!!

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    Posted by Master | January 16, 2012, 7:00 pm
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  10. Pretty useless according to me, for a car it’s great, but for a phone that people usually keeps for a couple of years what’s the point?

    It will probably sell for over 75$ if it ever comes to retail, you can buy a lot of cases with 75$ if one scratches…

    If I had to keep a phone for 10 years, OK good.. but seriously, for 2 years, who’s gonna buy that?

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    Posted by EAK47 | January 16, 2012, 8:00 pm
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  11. I suspect there has to be some potent chemicals and off-gassing behind that so I’ll take pass.

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    Posted by Keith | January 16, 2012, 8:51 pm
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  12. Imagine the outcry of sellers of screen protectors and phone cases when GG2 & polyrotaxane are considered standard equipment.

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    Posted by Alpha | January 17, 2012, 1:49 pm
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  13. Why wouldn’t they make use this for cellphone housing instead of a case?

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    Posted by Studystand | January 17, 2012, 2:49 pm
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  14. I want no JUKE =_=
    I would buy if it was GTR =_=

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    Posted by eww | January 17, 2012, 5:56 pm
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