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.
MacDailyNews Take: Do not try this at home, but Apple build quality!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
I can’t beat that but my iPhone has been dropped countless times in the last four or five years. I’m not sure how long I have had it. I even dropped it between the track and fram of the bull dozer and kind of ran over it in the mud. Found it and cleaned it off and made a call to check it.
Dropped it on concrete, gravel and bounced it down a set of steel steps. Still working.
I have had to replace the glass because I couldn’t see but the track pad was still working!
I found it amusing that it sounded like a helicopter. It should. It is a blade like shape constantly changing it’s angle to the wind.
iPhones seem stronger than other phones. My daughter dropped hers out the car window and it got run over by a car. Even though bent with a cracked screen, it still worked. She used it for another half year before replacing it.
“So what”
Be careful or Tim Cook will lecture you to accept the homo faggot way.
So, can anybody tell us how many of the materials that compose the iPhone were made by Apple? I mean, the exterior materials and the internal too.
And, are those materials exclusively reserved for Apple and iPhones?
And, can the fall be duplicated to arrive at the same results?
“...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....”
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It just needs to know it’s in free-fall (32 feet per second per second acceleration) and doesn’t need to know when it will impact. The idea is NOT to achieve the “impact position” at the last possible instant but to, instead, achieve AND MAINTAIN that position quickly and then throughout the remainder of the fall (whether the fall is from 3 feet or 120 stories). That continuous maintenance of relative orientation of the falling iPhone is why it would take an interesting video if it was accidentally dropped from a skyscraper as happened in the linked article.
This may be yet another great feature headed to iPhones in the next year or two.
“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??”
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Your posts make me think you are a very sad and lonely person. I’m glad I’m not you or anything like you.
And I only walked into the pool with mine for 2 minutes and it died. Sheesh. Lol.
(That was the only way I got myself an iphone 6 though, so I’m no longer sad about it.)
The photo impresses me....reminds of the opening of Star Wars Episode 2 with the landing on Coruscant.
huh, my sisters new iphone recently cracked after falling out of pocket onto the concrete and she had a protective cover on it too!
LOL! Hey that looks like exactly what I need.
Make a hell of a promo for Otter Box.
They are everywhere on Amazon under foam iPad cases.
For actual kids, there is a better one, Grip Case. It’s more concave and super protective. Easy for them to carry too. But I have the one I already showed you, and it has the nice stand.
why does John Cameron Swayze come to mind ? Simply amazing.
I’ve gotten to the point where I think cases may actually be unhelpful.
Buddy of mine dropped his iPhone in a case and it just shattered. Mine fell out of a chest-high pocket onto concrete and there were a couple dings.
Probably just luck of the draw, how it falls and how it hits.
No evidence it survived the impact other than the owner saying it did. The video went completely dead at impact.
Looks like and sounds like it went helicopter on itself thus surviving ..... cool video.
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