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The 404 - We drop a bowling ball on an iPad

2012-01-12
hey I'm Wilson Tang with the rest of the 44 guys Justin and Jeff we're here at the g-form booth to test that one of a little more benign things here at CES a case now we've seen no dozens of cases across the years generally they're just extra soft and you know like if you drop them this has happened to a lot of friends they'll crack you know even though they're in the case g-form says that that's because they got the science wrong behind it the way they've built it they come from a background of actually athletics so they've built pad for football players soccer players and the idea is the molecules actually stiffen when they're when there's a lot of kinetic energy that hits them right so they're generally pretty soft at first you know like I said they come from athletic background so you can actually wear a couple of them they've got this version right here that goes on the shin you know they're kind of stylish but you might have seen their YouTube video it's running back there right now where they've dropped an iPad from a hundred thousand feet almost in space they claim that the ipad actually survived the drop and we're going to do a little test here ourselves Justin yeah that's a strong man over here he's got a bowling ball yeah you know what to definitely put this technology to the test I've actually I really hope that they stand behind the product otherwise muscles gonna be out one really expensive tablet you don't worry about it is a fine we'll be fine if you're doing this all day I think this is a real iPad we had the cnet page loaded up and yeah Wilson it's okay don't worry it'll be fine I'm sure they'll buy you new one or whatever now we're gonna put it into the case zip it up say goodbye Wilson all right somebody just bowling yeah i'm gonna put this in there yep I hope and here's the bowling ball so we're gonna put it halfway through are you ready Wilson three two one oh that didn't sound good so let's double check to make sure that it's okay you can't really like this thing anyway right it's fine oh you're gonna be bummed it's fine it is still in working condition there it isn't so G form has a full line of protective cases for I devices and tablets they have an iphone case that you can for forty dollars gives you that same sort of padding on your iPhone they make one for 7-inch tablets as well they call this the edge that 7-inch is thirty-five dollars and then they have one for the ipad the 10-inch tablets they call this the edge design gives you sort of like a clipboard feel those are $45 and then this is the Big Daddy over here the portfolio which has an opening case that's going to set you back ninety dollars comes in all different kinds of styles to a camo case I personally really dig this one it's pretty awesome all these are available right now in stores and online you can go check them out that's going to do it for us here at the g-form booth for the guys on the 404 i'm jeff bakalar thanks for watching keep it here for the rest of CES 2012 all right they did really didn't say this is gonna work but we're gonna try something here we're gonna drop this on your foot with the extreme sleeve on there very good i 0 yeah let's try this out three two click today okay this
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