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Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @06:22AM from the nobody-can-hear-your-ipad-fall dept.

First time accepted submitter xwwt writes "G-Form has a nice video of an iPad launched into the stratosphere via weather balloon and protected using its new protective gear 'Extreme Edge' to see how well the gear worked in the iPad free fall to Earth. The gear is being introduced at this year's CES where our own timothy will be attending and reviewing new products. The cool part of this whole video is really that the iPad survives the free fall from space, remaining fully functional."

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and the camera they took it with? by BabaChazz · 2012-01-10 06:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

Appeared on Fark a couple days ago, with the comment that the (unprotected) camera they used to document the flight and fall also survived. So...
Why so high? by rHBa · 2012-01-10 06:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

Wouldn't it reach terminal velocity from a few hundred meters?