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Watch This iPad’s 1,300 Foot Free Fall…And It Survives!

How often have you dropped your phone on your driveway? Has your Kindle somehow found its way falling down several flights of stairs? If you’re hard on electronics, you may want to check out these videos and be thankful. In what look like iPad suicide missions — iPad dropped in a skydiving free fall and iPad thrown from a more than 100 mph speeding car — a G-Form protective case helped the device survive both.

Watch the iPad go skydiving. Thumbs up when you see it’s still working after the 1,300 fall:

Getting thrown from a 113 mph Porche with a double summersault on the pavement would do in most electronics but not with G-Form:

According to G-Form’s website, the cases use Reactive Protection Technology, which absorbs 90 percent of the impact. The company sells not only cases for electronic products, but also protective athletic gear and medical grade gels that reduce pressure.

Extremely Impact Absorbing Case Protects iPad From 1,300 Foot Free Fall and Throw From Speeding Car

(Photo: G-Form)

Learn more about G-Form’s impact resistance technology in this video — and see a 12 pound bowling ball bounce on an iPad and leave it unscathed:

[H/T SlashGear]

Comments (2)

  • amd1044
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:24am

    Aw, I thought they were really going to drop an iPad, I didn’t know they were going to send it down using the same technology they used to land the Mars Rover with.

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  • TXBadOneToo
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:02am

    Unfortunately when I usually drop an electronic device it’s zipped inside a protective caase – it’s being used in real life. But this technology does look promising for when you are traveling with a device..

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