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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.
You can destroy anything if you apply the right force. Making a bald statement that a phone (or anything else) is unbreakable will just prompt some folks to find the right force, even if it isn't something the phone would normally experience.
âoeAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
You sound like those crazy sociology professors who get pissed at words like "manhole" and "mankind." It's part of the presentation style, relax.
It adds another word to the bland summary.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
It's not as if we wouldn't have known anyway: his first reaction is to apologize profusely.
An American journalist would've rephrased the marketing blurb on the phone, not tried it out, and welcomed our new invincible mobile overlords, only to be made fun of by Jon Stewart later that night.
To be fair, it takes him a few solid whallops before it does break, and the rep doesn't look the least bit concerned until it actually snaps.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
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.
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An excellent court jester is the best of role models; they allow themselves to be the butt of many jokes while exposing the truth often at a potentially signifigant cost to themselves.
Jon Stewart is an excellent court jester
Make something idiot-proof, and the world just makes a better idiot...
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In addition to providing entertainment, wasn't the court jester supposed to keep the monarch humble by pointing out things that others would not dare? I'd say Jon Stewart makes an excellent jester in that regard, and all the more power to him for it.
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