Will Your Next Smartphone Have Super-Science Wonder Glass? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The only stumbling block is that the glass costs a lot to produce. But the researchers may have figured out a way to bring down manufacturing costs. Park and Choi told MIT News that "in the future glass or transparent polymer films might be manufactured with such surface features simply by passing them through a pair of textured rollers while still partially molten," adding a minimal extra cost to the overall cost of making regular glass.