Karissa Bell, Mashable:

During a press event at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facility Wednesday, the company showed off new designs that add realistic textures to its glass. It’s called “Vibrant” Gorilla Glass, and it was first introduced in 2016 with the promise that phone makers could print high resolution images directly onto it.

But its latest prototypes take the concept to the next level. The technique combines the printed images with etched glass that’s designed to mimic the feel of different textures, such as wood, rock, polished marble, or even snakeskin. The result is glass that doesn’t look or feel anything like glass.

This is pretty cool stuff. Not clear if Apple will adopt this new glass, but I imagine the design team is hard at work experimenting with it.

Here’s a link to Corning’s Vibrant Gorilla Glass product page.