Supply of touch sensitive coating used on iPhones is dwindling

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By Cody LeeJul 12, 2013, 8:05 pm1.3k ptsHot
Bad news for smartphone and tablet makers. It seems that the coating used to make devices like the iPhone touch sensitive is beginning to run scarce, and could completely disappear from the planet within the next decade or so. The transparent material is called indium tin oxide, and it’s used to sense when a…

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