CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone 316
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC's technology show Click managed to break a mobile phone marketed as 'unbreakable' (video), during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas." The phone can survive a 10 story fall, being submerged 20 feet for 30 mins, and you can use it to hammer a nail; but it's no match for a British journalist.
Whoops! (Score:2, Funny)
Uh...
Is this live? We can edit that out right?
Ok, reset. Ready? Take TWO!
Learn from history... (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the "titanic" tag?
yeah (Score:5, Funny)
but is it unblendable?
Re:Video (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone have a link to the actual video? The provided link just keeps playing a PBS commercial at me.
-Peter
That's how they broke it. One too many pledge drives and the poor phone just couldn't take any more...
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:2, Funny)
The yellow sun rays from his teeth did it?
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
Unbreakable??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing is unbreakable. (Score:4, Funny)
Not if you stay on your meds.
Re:Nothing is unbreakable. (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. Nothing is unbreakable!
That’s why my walls and my clothes are made out of nothing.
But I plan to sell nothing, so others have nothing too, and so have to pay taxes for nothing.
I only hope nobody steals nothing for me, because how will I sue him then?
Stiff Upper Lip, You Insensitive Clod (Score:4, Funny)
Because Brits have a Stiff Upper Lip. Great for breaking phones, summers where it never gets above 50, and attempting to conquer places like Afghanistan and India.
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:5, Funny)
Are you sure he wasn't French?
He said the guy apologized, not surrendered.
Re:Nothing is unbreakable. (Score:4, Funny)
You won't have to. He'll gladly settle out of court and give you nothing for your trouble.
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
My dad told me the story of when he was 16 (around 1966) and the local hardware store had got in unbreakable dishes (Corningware I think), and being a young imp, he decided to give it a shot. He dropped the plate on its edge, which, apparently is the weak spot on such dishes, and it literally exploded. He did this, naturally, during a product demonstration, and was promptly banned from the store.
That sounds like Corningware alright... When that stuff breaks, it's very serious about it.
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:5, Funny)
You all have it wrong, technically he apologised.
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
Hah, I just GNU that would come up
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Learn from history... (Score:2, Funny)
Where's the "titanic" tag?
Somewhere in the North Atlantic?
The Bal Conies test (Score:5, Funny)
An acquaintance of mine who suspected that he was being BSed by a sales person asked if his project had passed the Bal Conies test.
"Yes, it certainly has," he replied.
"Really!" he said. "Let's see." He then took the device in question and dropped it off the Bal Cony.
Sadly, the device in question did *not* pass the Bal Conies test.
Re:Nothing is unbreakable. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:5, Funny)
But... Iron Man was a Fe male...
Re:Oops (Score:3, Funny)
When I was at school this kid was showing off his unbreakable watch. I said I bet I could break it. He said 'go on then' and gave me the watch. It's amazing how much pressure you can apply to something with a point. In this case the point of an iron (we were in an art room) was more than a match. I still feel bad about killing his watch though :(
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:2, Funny)
British mouths are like diamonds; the funky teeth bend light around them causing them to sparkle and glow unnaturally, and they absorb all colors except yellow.
And "mailman" (Score:4, Funny)
Off-topic but noteworthy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
John Stewart is good, but he's no match for a British journalist.
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
That's not so bad. I'd rather be hung than hanged...
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:4, Funny)
"I didn't expect some kind of British journalist!"
*danger chord* "Nobody expects the British journalists! Our chief weapon is surprise!!"
and so forth.
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
Enough already.
So you're ready to surrender then?
Re:What's with the nationalism (Score:3, Funny)
About 25 years ago, I worked in a home/garden store that sold glass fireplace doors. We always told customers that they were "unbreakable", so they didn't have to worry about their children falling into them and getting hurt, or sudden changes of temperature causing the glass to shatter, etc. To demonstrate, we always took a fireplace poker and offered to let the customer hit the door as hard as they wanted. If they declined, we did it for them. We had done this hundreds of times, and never had a problem. One day, I was working with a customer and telling them about how they wanted to make sure they got one that was shatterproof so they wouldn't have any problems; I was facing them and swung the poker backwards into the door and heard this most horrific *CRASH*, *tinkle*, *tinkle*. I think I only stumbled slightly as I finished "like this cheap style here" and pointed them at the next higher model. Then I broke down laughing (and so did they), as I told them we must have weakened that one with repeated abuse (if you looked at the other panels and the doors themselves, you could see how often we had hit it). They ended up buying one anyway, so it was a good story and a good sale.
Re:Off-topic but noteworthy (Score:1, Funny)
for 2000$, I'll make you a web player that goes to 12