In article , says...

9xxx will be used for transparent aluminum.

Gunner


Does this count?

The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing directorate is testing
aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass
transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

And Scotty was just a bit early for the mouse/microphone:
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1281/

SteveA