The self-healing iPhone cover

Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:24

Your IT - Mobility

Using automotive paint protection technology, Nissan claims to have produced an iPhone case that can self-heal those annoying scratches that mar your retina display.

 

As reported over at Motoring.com.au, car manufacturer Nissan has developed a membrane style iPhone cover that over the course of an hour can mend minor scratches, with other blemishes requiring perhaps a week without human intervention.

According to Nissan: "[the]chemical structure is able to react to change back to its original shape and fill the gap - 'healing' the blemish," .

Still in beta testing Nissan's Scratch Shield technology is being developed for its (and co-brand Infiniti's) passenger car line up.  A feature bound to gladden all who have come away from shopping centre car parks with more scratches than they went in with.

Anti-scratch technology originally developed to keep cars looking spotless has the potential to be applied to several other fields, says Bob Laishley, Overseas Programme Director (Business Development) for Nissan in Europe.

"The Scratch Shield iPhone case is a great example of us taking a Nissan automotive technology that has had a huge impact for our customers, and then shifting the boundaries to apply it to another everyday product.

"We like to think laterally by taking the great innovations we've got from an automotive point of view, and looking at how they could be applied to improve everyday issues," added Laishley.

"We're really excited about the possibilities provided by this technology. In Japan, we've already linked up with world-leading mobile operator NTT DoCoMo to allow them to use the Scratch Shield technology on its Style Series N-03B mobile phones, and we think this technology has real scope beyond the automotive world."