Shred some glass, can it be done?

[Agschmid]

I had one particularly severe design professor who hated materials swapping for the sake of materials swapping. For example if you brought in a design for something ordinarily made of leather but spec'd it for steel, and you couldn't back up your reason for the materials choice, he would excoriate you. "That's not profound, that's not clever," he would rant. "The materials are supposed to serve the design, not whimsy."

Still, sometimes it's fun (particularly when there's no danger of an "F" looming over your head) to see videos like this one, where materials experimentation is done just for the hell of it. To create a piece of "ride-able art," the guys at California-based Signal Snowboards visited some of Italy's master glass manufacturers to see if a glass snowboard was do-able.

Link

[In_The_Wind]

1. very cool

[Agschmid]

2. It's got to slice through those corners pretty well huh!

[In_The_Wind]

3. Really! I am impressed.

so cool!

[formercia]

4. Corning Gorilla Glass

used on phone screens would be a great candidate for this type of experiment.

[MynameisBlarney]

5. Neat

but looks like a severed femoral artery just waiting to happen.

[bigmonkey]

6. Or, if the glass crumbles like a windshield

The run becomes seeded with razor-sharp glass cubes.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. Either way

It's win-win!

Uh...I mean it's a terrible idea.