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CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone
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.
Uh...
Is this live? We can edit that out right?
Ok, reset. Ready? Take TWO!
Where's the "titanic" tag?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
but is it unblendable?
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...
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
The yellow sun rays from his teeth did it?
Don't even get me started on "huwoMANs!"
Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
but was he British?
Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
That is the most blatant false advertising since my lawsuit against the movie, The Neverending Story.
Not if you stay on your meds.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Are you sure he wasn't French?
He said the guy apologized, not surrendered.
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You won't have to. He'll gladly settle out of court and give you nothing for your trouble.
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.
Bow-ties are cool.
You all have it wrong, technically he apologised.
Hah, I just GNU that would come up
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I hereby suggest "but it's no match for a British journalist" as a new catchphrase.
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.
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I agree, that's one hairy mess.
But... Iron Man was a Fe male...
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 :(
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.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Which is why I'm always careful to say "mailman or femailman"
Volume on the BBC Video player still "goes to eleven."
John Stewart is good, but he's no match for a British journalist.
That's not so bad. I'd rather be hung than hanged...
"I didn't expect some kind of British journalist!"
*danger chord* "Nobody expects the British journalists! Our chief weapon is surprise!!"
and so forth.
Enough already.
So you're ready to surrender then?
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.