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I've broken my fair share of bones some on purpose some not so much but these guys have it done with science I think sometimes people here in meetings drop their phones on purpose it almost feels like it sometimes we went to the OtterBox labs in Fort Collins Colorado to figure out how they make their cases tough enough to protect your phone from just about anything whoa it starts with getting the phone specs from the manufacturer if it's a galaxy phone they'll have them ahead of lunch but in the case of an iPhone even OtterBox is kept in the dark about every conference room is booked and we're live-streaming the Tim Cook speech as well following all the information all the details and stuff within 24 hours they're ready to 3d print cases in this monster printer to get the feel for how it would work on an actual phone and make the necessary changes before they go to mass production and that's not even the half of it the real testing happens inside the pit an entire lab devoted to torturing cases each one goes through a minimum of 24 tests a lot our industry standards while others were inspired by cussing the horror stories and that's how they came up with the first test this transform Maytag dryer spins a phone inside of a purse holding loose change keys and even a nail file about a hundred tumbles with a meter drop at each end then there's what looks like a tanning bed for phone cases which test you the exposure also a machine that rubs a piece of fabric on a case over and over again and one whose sole purpose in life is to press a button really we're putting a wrapper if you will on someone else's product when we do that we want to make sure that we are not making the way that that thing performs that device performs any less and it would be than when it's the bear than a device that includes audio quality some of the more rugged OtterBox cases and the water-resistant lifeproof cases a sister brand of OtterBox undergoes sound test in the studio with this guy get spooky I'm not sure definitely not English the dummy emits a series of sounds covering every pitch in the vocal spectrum to test that the case won't muffle your conversations love you too okay bye after a day of putting these cases through the ringer I asked if they ever pushed them beyond the standard testing limits which is how I ended up standing below the guillotine the ultimate torture machine that can drop a phone from up to two stories to three Wow and then we didn't break anything on our visit we learned the torture testing is a serious business you