Apple’s new device revealed?

Apple is experimenting with wristwatch-like devices made of curved glass, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the company's explorations.


Such a watch would operate on Apple's iOS platform, other sources have claimed.


Apple has reportedly declined to comment on its plans.


Such a watch could also be used to make mobile payments, with Apple's Passbook payment software.


Last year, Corning, the maker of the ultra-tough Gorilla Glass that is used in the iPhone, announced that it had solved the difficult engineering challenge of creating bendable glass, called Willow Glass, that can flop as easily as a piece of paper in the wind without breaking.


Pete Bocko, the chief technology officer for Corning Glass Technologies, who worked on Willow Glass, said via telephone that the company had been developing the thin, flexible glass for more than a decade, and that the technology had finally arrived.