Posted on 04/15/2015 5:32:57 PM PDT by Swordmaker
“Photographer Catalin Marin was taking photos of Dubai’s sunrise from the top of a building when he accidentally dropped his iPhone from the roof—and the device captured its entire 40 story plunge on video,” Reem Nasr reports for CNBC.
“Amazingly the phone was without a scratch and on top of everything it captured the whole fall on video as I was filming at the moment I dropped it,” Marin wrote in a blog post,” Nasr reports.
Read more in the full article here.
Catalin Marin writes, “Unfortunately the shoot was cut unexpectedly short when I managed to drop my phone from the roof all the way to the ground (40 stories) and I had to go find it! Amazingly the phone was without a scratch and on top of everything it captured the whole fall on video as I was filming at the moment I dropped it.”
Full article here.
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So what
I hate it when that happens! ;^)
BTW, I love mine. And am anxiously awaiting my new MacBook...
That would make a great ad for Apple. Our iPhones can take a 40 story fall and survived unscathed.
Please, its a freak incident. Hundreds of phones of all types are dropped 4 feet and shatter like cheap pottery.
Just wait until Apple incorporates this new patent into the iPhones, one hell of a video would be captured during such a fall due to the falling phone’s stability in its fall.
http://gizmodo.com/apple-patents-method-to-make-iphones-fall-like-a-cat-1665632659
How many cats did apple drop from unknown altitudes to gain this data?
Are they just as “phoney” about animal rights as they are the queer stuff??
Aw CRAP !!
Iphones have been known to crack just by keeping it in the pocket.
Another jumper at the iPhone factory?
It's never had an issue either.
My grandchildren were breaking them but my daughter found some thick foam frames that fit around them. Look rather goofy but has solved the impact problem.
> Please, its a freak incident. Hundreds of phones of all types are dropped 4 feet and shatter like cheap pottery.
Of course they do. But they're not the ones stories are told about. It's always the unusual circumstance that the story is told about.
So while I agree with you that this is not the typical outcome, surely you've seen tons of ads where the events being shown are anything but typical.
The main reason I wouldn't do an ad from this is that the video is very hard to watch, and harder to listen to.
Ha....good for you it broke on impact....otherwise it would have filmed the drop (no pun intended)....and you would be UTube famous.
“The main reason I wouldn’t do an ad from this is that the video is very hard to watch, and harder to listen to. “
At least it didn’t know to scream on the way down...
What the hell? Time to impact? How would they know what's under them and how far away it is? The camera is at an arbitrary angle and images would be unusable for ranging due to rotation etc. That makes no sense.
> The device would then use an onboard motor to reorient itself in order to protect fragile components like the screen or the camera when it hits the ground.
Okay, I could see this working. I spent years designing spacecraft attitude control system components that used this exact principle (the motor, not the screen hitting the ground).
> The device's on-board vibration motor could be employed, so it would even screech a little bit as it feel towards Earth, just like a cat.
That's gratuitous. My cat does NOT screech under any circumstances. The only times he's fallen an appreciable distance he was too busy flipping around to orient himself for landing.
I don't really think this but the opportunity was too big.
There has never been a jumper at an iPhone factory, so how could there be "another"?
You must mean the suicides at the Microsoft xBox, Sony Playstation, HP Computer and Nokia cellphone factory where eight workers jumped to their deaths in 2010. They did happen to work for the same company which employed 750,000 employees and had a total of 18 suicides in an 18 month period, a rate of ~0.25 suicides per 100,000 per year, such a high number that Anti-Apple fanatics got their panties in a wad about it, when the suicide rate in the USA is around 22 per 100,000 per year. Oh, my, the horror of it all.
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