Mobiles.co.uk Destruction Derby Challenge - Samsung U600 Be afraid!

Mobiles.co.uk (AW) have a Samsung U600 which apparently is ready and willing to be trashed in the most violent and extraordinary way possible.

Poor Samsung U600 what have you ever done to them to be picked on in such a way.

What a good publicity idea though, after the success of ‘Will It Blend’ and other technology trashing websites mindless destruction of property is a quick visual way to review a product.

Being a big fan of MythBusters my initial idea was to test mobile phone myths, biggest one being petrol stations being blown up by sparks from mobile phones. Mythbusters have debunked this just a myth, there are some videos on youtube that show otherwise. Brainiac also dispelled this myth - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkPT-j8PNg

So petrol is out as it probably wouldn’t work. So from here…

I would like to see if a mobile phone could stop a bullet (as wads of cash, cigarette cases, decks of cards, lockets etc do in movies.)

Of course I would like to start small (pea shooter, spud gun) and work my way up to bb gun, air rifle and if necessary shotgun, depending at which point the phone gives in.

Having the phone attached to a shop dummy in order to give some indication of the protective value of the phone in a gunfight situation, I would take it along to a shooting range of course to ensure safety to all witnesses of the shooting.

I would love to see some other Destruction Derby entries - so if you wanted to post a link in a comment that would be great.

July 29th, 2008 Posted by admin | Uncategorized | one comment