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Gorilla Glass maker Corning takes a look at the crystal sphere and tries to predict the future, presenting a vision of a future where virtually everything has some form of touch-based display.

Titled A Day Made of Glass 2, the video follows a family in a Corning-dominated future utopia where transparent touchscreens are everywhere-- taking over not only mobile device buttons, but also home windows, automobile dashboards and interactive whiteboards.

Corning presented an 80" Gorilla Glass display at CES 2012.

Possibly even more interesting is a second video on Corning's predictions, explaining what the company is actually working on to bring such a vision to reality.

Watch "A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision"

Watch "A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked" with a narrator narrator for details on these Corning technologies

New for ISE 2012 are some additional touch technologies for some of is Elo TouchSystems’ most popular touchmonitor models.

The zero-bezel design removes the frame found around standard monitors to create a seamless surface designed to showcase the HD wide-screen experience.

Elo says that zero-bezel projected capacitive (PCAP) touch technology gives a unique design resistant to water, impacts, scratches and other contaminants on the screen. With the Windows 7 OS and compatible driver, multi-touch functionality is available. (and with Windows 8 on the way, this year….only better.)

As ISE grows bigger, many exhibitors consider increasing their stands. While re-signing for 2013 ISE, Digital Projection increased its stand size almost 3X. Sony, Barco, Sennheiser, AVC Group, Sharp and Optoma also increased their floor space for 2013. But the real news is Samsung who will jump 25% to 1000 sq. m.

Exhibitors will now grow their stand footprints, in conjunction with an ISE priority system that ranks exhibitors so one with higher priority can choose its stand location and size before another. And this selection process will change the face of the show.

Which exhibitors at ISE 2012 took the most space? Click below and see...

Go ISE 2012 Top 10 in Floor Space

While Amsterdam registered record cold temperature (did it ever go above -5C?), the ISE show burned up the RAI breaking all records: exhibitors (up 15%), exhibition space (up 18%), pre-registration (up 21%), attendance (up 17%), and conference delegates (more than 2000).

The world’s largest Pro AV show rocked the RAI convention centre, packing 11 halls with 825 exhibitors who brought about 1000 new products and attracted nearly 41,000 attendees.