destruction
Phones
Nokia N97 Waterproof Experiment Tests Hypothesis That Nobody Ever Had
7:50PM John Herrman | You know those videos where someone puts a rugged gadget through a battery of tests that would destroy regular hardware, but the device comes through the other side unharmed? This is not one of those videos. More »
Games
Is Nuking Consoles Still Cool?
12:40AM Mark Wilson | I remember back when one guy microwaved an Xbox 360. It was the coolest! Now someone has done the same thing to a PS3 to even the score, and it just feels awkward. [via Joystiq] More »
Online
Blowing Up Bridges Is High Art
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | At least, when you set it to opera music. Actually, even when you hit mute, the delicately synchronised way the bridges collapse as the charges fire is beautiful, like ballet. With explosions. [VDOT via BoingBoing] More »
Software
Nature Defeats Technology, Again
9:50PM Jesus Diaz | Master buys dog training software. Dog finds training software. Dog decides he needs no bloody training. Dog acts accordingly, destroys it, then goes after master and bites his or her ass. More »
Toys
Implosion Toy Set Lets You Practice Destroying the Apple Cube Store Over and Over
2:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | American Toy and Invention Co. is selling a kit that’ll let you build, implode, and rebuild a multi-story structure that looks strangely enough like the 5th Avenue Apple flagship retail space. I’m sure it teaches about the physics of demolition, but hey! Stuff’s blowing up! Stuff with iPods inside! More »
Phones
A Visual Look at the Nokia Damage Test Labs
6:00AM Adrian Covert | I’ve long suspected that the best job ever would be to work in product stress testing—because you basically get paid to break shit all day. Nokia sent over a bunch of info detailing how their test centres operate, leaving me fully convinced this would indeed be my dream gig. Not only do they run over 200 mechanical tests on these things, but where else could you play with a bunch of machines that bend, bake, humidify, spray, poke and drop phones? (And yeah, that phone in the picture above just got poked a million times…literally.) galleryPost('nokiatestlabs3', 4, ''); More »
Phones
10:30AM Nick Broughall | We’ve had some pretty encouraging ideas on how to put the world’s toughest phone through its paces – the washing machine test looks like it’s definitely on the cards – but we want more. Seamus and I are planning a big day of wanton destruction, and the more ideas you can come up with, the better.
Tell us what you think in comments, and stay tuned for some mobile destruction here on Giz!
[Help Gizmodo Destroy the Sonim XP1] More »
Reminder: Help Giz Destroy The Sonim XP1
10:30AM Nick Broughall | We’ve had some pretty encouraging ideas on how to put the world’s toughest phone through its paces – the washing machine test looks like it’s definitely on the cards – but we want more. Seamus and I are planning a big day of wanton destruction, and the more ideas you can come up with, the better.
Tell us what you think in comments, and stay tuned for some mobile destruction here on Giz!
[Help Gizmodo Destroy the Sonim XP1] More »
Phones
11:19AM Nick Broughall | The world’s toughest phone, the Sonim XP1, is now available in Australia through Crazy Johns. But rather than bore you with specifications and tiresome statistics on just how tough it is, Sonim has (foolishly?) agreed to let us show you by letting us attempt to destroy it.
So, I’m partnering up with ex-Giz ed (and current Kotaku guest-ed) Seamus for a fun-filled day of attempted mobile phone destruction. And while we both have some rather creative ideas on the best way to introduce the phone to our friend pain, we want your help.
Let us know in comments how you think we should try and annihilate this thing. keep it realistic – we don’t have access to the LHC at the moment remember. The best ideas will be attempted, and we’ll video the whole thing and upload it next week.
And for those of you who are interested in the figures, the press release for the XP1 is below: More »
Help Gizmodo Destroy The Sonim XP1
11:19AM Nick Broughall | The world’s toughest phone, the Sonim XP1, is now available in Australia through Crazy Johns. But rather than bore you with specifications and tiresome statistics on just how tough it is, Sonim has (foolishly?) agreed to let us show you by letting us attempt to destroy it.
So, I’m partnering up with ex-Giz ed (and current Kotaku guest-ed) Seamus for a fun-filled day of attempted mobile phone destruction. And while we both have some rather creative ideas on the best way to introduce the phone to our friend pain, we want your help.
Let us know in comments how you think we should try and annihilate this thing. keep it realistic – we don’t have access to the LHC at the moment remember. The best ideas will be attempted, and we’ll video the whole thing and upload it next week.
And for those of you who are interested in the figures, the press release for the XP1 is below: More »
Science
How to Erase Your Data With Thermite
8:47PM Kit Eaton | Over at Hackaday they’ve gone a bit fiery destruction crazy, and posted a guide on how to destroy HDDs with thermite—that’s the super-high temperature chemical mix used in welding, fireworks, and generalized military destruction. The guide shows how a kilo of burning thermite melts clean through a PC case, hard drive platters and all, turning them into pools of melted metal…which may be handy if you, uh, ever need to, um, “destroy” your data in an emergency. Hmmm. Check out the video, which is pyrotechnically cool, then see the hard drives post-incineration. More »
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