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Encased iPad survives 1300 foot drop, because why not?

by Mike Schramm Nov 14th 2011 at 8:00PM

The folks at G-Form make athletic pads and rugged iPad cases, but they must really hate Apple's tablet over there. Not only did they drop a bowling ball on it and drop it out of a plane at 500 feet, but now they've doubled that distance, throwing a couple of encased iPads from a parachute at a height of 1300 feet (almost 400 meters), complete with movies playing.

Since you probably wouldn't be watching the video below if the iPad broke, the case indeed does protect the devices (though that case does look a little worse for the wear). In a review of G-Form's cases, we liked the protection a lot, but I agree -- it's not a very good looking case, and especially if (like me), you like to keep the iPad's form factor lean and sleek, it's not a good choice for that either. But then again, if you're in a situation where you absolutely need to protect your iPad and aren't worried about how it ends up looking, it certainly seems like G-Form's protection is a good way to go.

[via TechCrunch]



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Rim Zaidullin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkeVrBj5HrY

November 15 2011 at 4:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin Castro

He had to zip it up, if I'm in the middle of using my iPad I won't have time to zip it up. Weak.

November 15 2011 at 2:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Edsel

Impressive!

Now, "drop" it from the International Space Station.

November 15 2011 at 8:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gormster

I have a feeling even an unprotected iPad could survive that fall on to long grass like that. I don't know what the terminal velocity is for an iPad but I suspect it's not very fast.

November 14 2011 at 11:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Winski

Instead of dropping it from such heights, they could have just dropped it at my house...

November 14 2011 at 11:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Yofie Setiawan

I wanna see if the ipad survive when he throw it to do street road...

November 14 2011 at 9:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
loopyduck

I suspect that, due its shape, it already hit terminal velocity in the 500 foot fall, so this is just silly. They might as well have dropped it from a normal ~10,000 feet, though I guess tumbling and crosswinds would make it hard to guess where it would land.

November 14 2011 at 9:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Colin Castro

Find my iPad, it'll work in that case too.

November 15 2011 at 2:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Buzz Mega

Great. Now drop one in three inches of water.

November 14 2011 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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henryhbk

I just recently did the water thing at the AMIA conference in DC :

http://www.hmfpinformatics.org/ipad_amia2011/

November 15 2011 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
levo

It shouldn't make a difference, once it hits the terminal velocity.. It couldn't fall any faster..

November 14 2011 at 8:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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