'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos Have you ever bitten your phone, or thrown it in anger? How about broken it in a collision with a moose? These are just some of the ways in which people have damaged their digital devices, according to a survey. It probably won't surprise anyone that a cracked screen is the most common form of device damage, but a UK survey by …
I can understand you placing your phone on a table and it falling off. I can understand you taking your phone out of your pocket, fumbling, and dropping it.
I cannot understand you mowing the lawn with your phone. You're mowing the fucking lawn. You can live without your slab of toxic materials during that time.
I think this is the weirdos who keep their phone in their shirt pocket. Making leaning over an exercise in mobile-jeopardy.
Mine lives in my trouser pocket. It's never fallen out. I tend to forget it's there - so it's usually with me. So if I was mowing the lawn, I'd probably have it. I haven't mown a lawn since moving out of my parents' - not having owned a garden since. I don't think I've mown a lawn since owning a mobile.
The more important question is: why was the moose riding a bicycle?
The more important question is: why was the moose riding a bicycle?
The way the article reads it is as though the moose jumped out from behind a tree and gave the cyclist a smack rather than the speeding cyclist colliding with the unfortunate cervid.
The peeing cat being electrocuted by the macbook and the toddler sailing into the pond were pretty tough on the cat and child too. :)
For the record at one point forgetting a pen (biro) left above the function keys on a laptop/notebook before closing it was a frequent cause of broken screens. (Think mechanical advantage or nutcracker - crunch!)
"The way the article reads it is as though the moose jumped out from behind a tree and gave the cyclist a smack rather than the speeding cyclist colliding with the unfortunate cervid."
Moose can run at up to 35 mph (56 kph if they live in HRH's forrest). When they run through the woods, they treat many trees like we might handle particularly tall grass. So it's possible that the impact could have happened either direction.
Either way they're not an animal you want to tangle with. Occasionally sombody will hit a moose with a car at highway speeds. A car will clip the moose's legs. The car keeps moving forward under the moose, who ends up contacting the windshield and roof of the car. Usually ends very badly for the occupants of the car. Sometimes the impact just annoys the moose.
A certain company staffed almost entirely by 80 of the fair sex that I did the tech support for, had a visit from a team of their company counter-parts from another country including the second-in-command of the whole company.
This young lady could only be described as a fashion victim and a Queen Bee. Nearly everyone started copying her mannerisms and way of working, which included taking her office MacBook Air everywhere with her, and with the added frisson of using it as a clutch-bag to hold pens, keys and lippy between the keyboard and screen.
I'm sure everyone reading this is aware of how a nutcracker operates.
A week of her sailing round the office with her coterie resulted in eight broken screens and a very stern notice from THE BOSS that computers are precision instruments and should not be considered fashion accessories or indestructible or else!
For myself I favour the leather belt phone holder. I know exactly where my phone is at all times, can retrieve it and have it at my ear in less than 2 seconds, plus the phone is protected and can't fall out. Old fashioned yes, stylish no, but I don't really care about that. It gets the fucking job done even if I'm crawling around under desks. I obey my requirement.
> Mine lives in my trouser pocket.
This can create a different problem (depending on the kind of trousers you wear): Sitting with your phone in the back pocket will bend the phone. I recall iPhones having that problem after prolonged residence in back pockets of skintight jeans: They invented the first curved screen phones.
Things always fall out of back pockets. And it's easy to steal wallets, or phones, from there. So it has to go in your front ones - where it can cook your meat and two veg.
I had a belt clip on my old Motorola Microtac - back in the 90s. Micro being a relative term. With the 8 hour battery it wouldn't fit in any trouser pocket - with the 4 hour one it would go in a big pocket.
That's 8 hour's standby time. I think it was only 1 hour talk time.
Yep I had a motorola MR30, same battery type i believe but non foldable mic. I ended up carrying an early form of power bank (SLA 12v battery with the guts of the supplied charger in a box). Got me some funny looks but I could sometimes go all day without losing power. :)
Back pockets are almost pointless concepts, useful only to keep business cards in.
Anything put in one will be squashed, sat on, and is very likely to get dropped in a toilet if you sit or squat to do the needful.
Sadly they're the only pockets many fashion designers seem to be capable of putting on clothing aimed at women. These designers should of course be interred along with a poop-coated smartphone, yet weirdly they seem to keep getting paid.
> Back pockets are almost pointless concepts, useful only to keep business cards in.
Used with a clean hankie*, very useful for The Code in a night club.
Or so I'm told. Cough.
* or a knife & fork, if you are just looking for someone to take you out for a nice dinner.
Shrug. I keep various things, though never my phone, in my back pockets. It has never been a problem for me.
(I keep my phone in a front pocket, or occasionally a side pocket when I'm wearing carpenter pants while DIYing.)
I have to say I don't really understand these "sliding off" or "cracked screen" issues. It's a relatively expensive,1 fragile object that people carry all over the place, use frequently, leave on various surfaces, drop, etc. Why the hell would someone not put a case and screen protector on it? Mine has a cheap "gel" case which absorbs impacts and a screen protector; the latter comes in a set of three, which is handy because those do get cracked or scratched occasionally, so I just put a new one on.
What else do these people do? "Oh, I park my car on the golf-course fairway. For some reason I keep having to replace the window glass."
1Personally I buy outdated-model phones and keep them until they stop working, hopefully for several years. But that's because I don't want to spend a lot of money on phones, so they're still subjectively expensive.
> ...why was the moose riding a bicycle?
I dunno about Alaska. In Maine, the laws give some protection to bicycle riders. IANAL, but motor vehicle operators are supposed to give a bicycle ample clearance, and the drunk-driving law does not apply to bicyclists (there is always Drunk and Disorderly; get your moose a good lawyer).
And as AC says, loose moose are a real danger. At night your headlights shine right under the belly, legs are real thin, you don't see them. Depending on your car, they either hit you above the neck or flip the windshield and come down on top your head.... either way your head gets dead.
I've mowed a little baby flip phone - probably from 2003 or 4 . NEC ? or something like that - It was in the shirt pocket and I was mowing the grass straight after work. Bent over to empty the grass collection bucket. Phone fell out n in the longer grass next to the mower. On the next run down the garden ... BANG.. shards of phone everywhere.
NEC 0 : Hayter Petrol 1
I also managed to leave another flipper in a shirt pocket, and wash it.. That one survived surprisingly - although took a week or so for the microphone to dry out.
Since then (luckily) I've not broken any of the fondle slab phones I've owned.
Appropriate soundtrack: the gentle purr and deep throbbing of that classic Jaguar Lawn Cruiser, with the reflex grass clippings bin and twin overhead awnings, that you daydream about owning. As the headphones cancel out the erratic one-and-three-quarters stroke B&D Friday Special that the neighbours so love waking up to on a Sunday morning.
It's in my pocket so it doesn't go out of range of my bluetooth headphones, because I have a garden that although taking over an hour to cut isn't worth a ride on mower due to the way it's split, and it's probably the only time I get on my own to listen to music, podcasts, Radio 4 comedies or audiobooks without having to consider what other people want to listen to in my house...
I probably drop my phone more than once a week. Hence it's in a case - and bears no cracks. Mostly its while sitting down in carpeted rooms - and I'm also very good at getting my foot underneath it to break its fall. But I am a clumsy oaf.
I think I've only ever broken one phone - but all 3 of my iPads have ended up with cracked screens. Admittedly I've kept those for an average of 5 years (and the iPad 1 was a minor crack made by someone else) - whereas my phones get changed more often. Maybe every 3. Partly I think that's because the iPad has a much bigger screen, and Apple's cases are rubbish. But also I hold the iPad for much longer than the phone.
I've got poor vision and very little depth perception - hence the clumsiness, so guess I'm not representative. Weirdly I can often catch stuff I drop because my brain knows where it started from when toching it. But i can't even catch a football thrown to me slowly, because being able to see it doesn't mean I can tell how far away it is.
At school I refused to play cricket, on the grounds of not being able to see the ball. My PE teacher told me to umpire instead. If you've not got a white stick, people seem to find it very hard not to think you're making it up. "That was never LBW! Are you blind?" - "Erm. It's complicated." I also refused to umpire. Failed to get out of cross-country running though. Uphill through the pig farm was not fun! Pig shit is not a high-traction surface.
> I probably drop my phone more than once a week.
It's a rare day that I don't drop the phone at least once. I'm so spastic I have to put fragile things on a cart to take them across the garage. I have to think about it to keep holding it. "hold on, hold on, hold on, oh wait the garbage needs to... OH FUCK"
> At school I refused to play cricket, on the grounds of not being able to see the ball
Since I'm American, it was baseball. "JUST WATCH THE BALL" "WHAT BALL?" and I would just swing blindly until I was "out"
My mother finally wondered why I had to sit 4ft from the TV and had my eyes checked at about 16. Suddenly I found out what the big green square was for at the front of the room!! The teacher was writing stuff on it!!!
My baseball skills went up so much they asked me to join the team, but I was like "fuck you. you all treated me like shit for years when I couldn't see"
Mine got tested when I was 12, in the UK. The big scary games teacher told me to run to the bollard and back again and I said "what bollard?". He didn't think I had the balls to talk back to him, so he dragged me to matron and...
...I spent the rest of my life (so far!) wearing glasses.
Why wasn't it a problem in lessons? Because I used to sit near the front (so I could sort-of see the board). Ironically I was diagnosed with various neurological issues (I believe I am autistic, but this wasn't really a thing when I was a child) which along the way specifically noted a great difficulty in copy-writing stuff from the board at school into my textbook. Psychologists, doctors, social workers, and not a one of them was like "um, can he actually see it?". I guess sometimes, for various reasons, people fall through the cracks and it takes somebody paying attention to notice and join the dots.
Here's a pint for that games teacher. He was an arse, but thanks to him my world changed dramatically. So much detail. Cracks in the ceiling. A fly on the window. And so on.
I was laughed at by world + dog for not being able to catch a ball. However it was the science master at school that noticed I could easily read very, very small print (one of the few advantages of being short-sighted). An eye test and glasses solved most problems, but it was too late for ball catching - I'd reached an age where I simply didn't want to.
Worn glasses sinc 10 as I was -6 in both eyes and couldn't see the blackboard. Obviously moved to contact lenses as soon as possible in the 70's.
Now, when I'm reading in bed I remove the contact lenses and don't use my glasses and everything within 30cm like fruit, skin, watch-faces etc, shows the most amazing detail that glasses and lenses take away.
When I was about three or four, my mother, sister, and I were sitting in the car waiting for Dad to return from wherever he had gone (on business). Mum said to me "What does that sign say?" to which I replied "What sign?" The next day I was taken to the local opticians and given a sight test, which revealed that I was so short sighted that I would need corrective lenses for the rest of my life. I am now at minus eight diopters in my left eye and minus seven and a half in my right.
I have tried contact lenses, but my eyes are so sensitive (and I am so squeamish) that I just can't tolerate them, hence the bottle bottom specs I have to wear.
(Icon because goggles).
I didn't know I was extra myopic until I was about 7. Reading books since kindergarten, failing everything in class. Teacher perceptively moved me to the front row, but it only helped a bit. The school nurse (we had them in the USA fifty years ago!) administered a rough vision test and strongly suggested my mom take me to the optometrist. I remember the big black thing with all the lenses being swung in front of my face.
"Is one (click) or two (click) better/"
"WOW!!!" Hard to decide when both were better than anything you could see before.
My mom was spectacularly irritated with me. "Why didn't you tell me you couldn't see!?" "I thought everybody saw the same, how was I supposed to know?"
I remember when I got my glasses that I marveled that trees had individual leaves.
Since I'm American, it was baseball. "JUST WATCH THE BALL" "WHAT BALL?" and I would just swing blindly until I was "out"
My vision is similar, and so is my father's. And correction (we're both myopic, and now with age presbyopic as well of course) Does Not Help. I can be corrected to 20/20 or better and see fine detail on things, but I still have no idea where that damned ball is. I've worn glasses since I was 6 and have only ever hit a baseball by luck.
One time some co-workers were visiting from England, and as one was a cricketer we went to the batting cages so he could have a try at hitting baseballs. Everyone had a go. All my colleagues, doing it for the first time, had no trouble hitting the machine-pitched balls; I missed every single one.
Bigger balls are somewhat easier — I can participate in a friendly game of volleyball or basketball (not that I have any skill at either), for example.
Yeah, as a one-eyer, depth perception is over-rated. Who cares if I'm constantly knocking stuff off the worktops ;)
When I had the obligatory eye test, they did my right eye (the bad one) first and said can you read the top of the chart, to which I responded "What Chart?" A brief, frank exchange of views later, and the school nurse accepted that not everyone with vision issues has corrective lenses as sometimes, they just won't work...
>> sailed gracefully through the air
> No toddler ever tripped gracefully
The run up is wobbly, the take off clumsy, but once in the air the double barrel-roll and knee-tuck is smooth as silk.
We gloss over the landings[1].
[1] Come to think of it, that might be the reason this keeps happening.
Toddler kinematics is a legitimate field. In Baby Meets World (a fascinating read, incidentally), Day interviews a toddler-kinematics research team. Many of their experiments involve making toddlers navigate obstacle courses the team builds over foam pits. This might be one of the best experimental-design jobs ever.
Some notable device accidents I have seen and dealt with during my career:
Ran over surface book with own car
Dropped laptop in hot pea soup
Melted IBM Thinkpad keyboard and nipple with a cigarette after falling asleep (at least the company was a major cigarette manufacturer and producer of smoking pipes)
Embedded laptop in partition wall after walking across the office at warp speed and colliding with said wall
Left laptop in gym bag with leaking slimming drink - announced the laptop had smoke coming out of it when arriving in the office and asked the IT team to "smell the laptop"
Oh no the IBM (now Lenovo) little red, (thing) in the middle of the keyboard, which acted as a pointing device.
Except it was universally known as the ‘nipple mouse’; or sometimes; the ‘clit mouse’.
Although in the latter case, at least most men could find and properly manipulate it to get the desired response!
I used to work at one of the 2 large laptop OEMs and due to the cost of screen replacements at the time (this was around 2006/07 and a new screen was probably half the cost of the machine just for the part, never mind the time it took for an engineer to fit them) we required photos of the screen to ensure it was an actual failure and not user damage (unless they had the appropriate coverage).
Used to see pens and scissors and occasionally screwdrivers outline on the the dead screen where the lid had been closed on them, another one that was surprisingly common was lipbalm. Sometimes the plastic tubes, but more often the small metal tins that Vaseline lipbalm came in.
Also being in Scotland, Irn Bru spillage was another common issue. Makes you wonder what it does to your insides when you see what it does to a PCB - the damage is far worse than any other soft drink I've ever seen.
> Irn Bru ... Makes you wonder what it does to your insides when you see what it does to a PCB
Your insides are fine *if* you remember to disconnect your battery before imbibing. If you are running on external power, take especial care not to let your neck bolts get splashed, as that stuff will just strip the copper before you can blink.
Irn Bru - always read the warnings and do not drink for an hour before playing the bagpipes; one burp and the debris from the bladder will have someone's eye out: a drone is more aerodynamic than it looks.
I put a projector on the road and then backed out the pool car, straight over it. That one took a bit of explaining as it was on the office car park.
I had a colleague put a MacBook in his backpack jumped on a motorbike and forgot to fasten the top of the backback. It escaped was was run over by a lorry, what was recovered was, an interesting shape….it did still try and boot though….
Mind you being a network engineer I have lost several laptops to comms rooms incidents. Usually involving a usb lead that snagged rather than coming out and ripping the usb ports out of the case. Of falling off the top of a cabinet whilst trying to run diagnostics on something or other,
And finally I remember the dodgy machine that came in for investigation, took the lid off fired it up and there was a 1” flame coming out of a component on the motherboard, we killed it and put a warranty claim in for that one.
A former colleague of mine did the same trick of putting laptop in rucksack and forgetting to do it up. In his case, he boarded a train, swung it round to sit down.... - the flying laptop shot over an elderly lady's head, narrowly missing said bonce and instead, dented the teenager standing behind her.
That was deliberate.
But an induction hob, now that's a natural worksurface and you'd expect people to put things on it. Wonder what happens when a device is put on an induction hob and the wrong ring is turned up? Given the nature of lithium batteries I won't be trying this myself.
Males during rutting season or females with a calf can both be pretty aggressive.
However, most of the dangerous encounters stem from their poor eyesight and used to being (by far) the biggest creature in the forest where everything else gets the hell out of their way. They go wherever they want in a straight line.
Enough so that they're the leading cause of highway deaths in Newfoundland. Hit a deer and your front end is messed up. Moose are tall enough hitting them just takes out the legs and their 1,000 lb body lands on your roof & crushes everyone inside.
Cyclist passing in front when one wants to cross a bike path would barely count as a speed bump.
After a week's field course in East Anglia I was tying stuff on the LWB Landrover to return to London. Halfway back I realised I'd put the lecturer's penknife down on the roof and left it there. First out of the door when we got back and enthusiastically on the step to help unpack, more in hope then confidence. And it was still there.
I do have to give the Razer Black Widow keyboard absolute kudos for being built like a brick shithouse.
It survived my hardest pounding with my fist, where Model Ms and everything else would be shedding keys like dandruff.
Of course the reason (I found out later) that I was pounding the everloving hell out of it is that the "M" key got remapped to a macro of about 50 garbage characters (including function keys) somehow. It was causing TOAD to completely spaz out when I hit M and I was in the middle of a production emergency.
The other plus is it introduced me to Cherry MX Green switches, so I have a non-gaming keyboard coming with those and no silly RGB lights or macro garbage.
Seriously?
I used to see people using phones with broken screens ALL THE TIME 10 years ago. It became less common 5 years ago, and these days it is extremely rare in my experience. The glass is so much better that it is an unusual event when a drop damages it. The cheapo $200 phones might still be vulnerable, but the higher end ones are all using very high quality glass. They aren't immune to breakage, but nearly so.
I used to have a moment of panic when I'd drop my iPhone, I think every one I owned I dropped onto concrete from chest height exactly once, but fortunately other than scuffs on the frame they survived. But I was really worried for those 2 or 3 seconds from the time it fell until I was able to inspect it and find it was OK. For whatever reason I've dropped my 14 Pro Max a half dozen times onto hard surfaces from wood floors to concrete - a far greater rate than any previous one - with no damage not even a scuff. Not sure if that increased drop rate is because I'm less paranoid about drops than I used to be, the phone is slippier somehow, or I've just become more clumsy lol! But when I drop it I'm not really concerned. I give it a quick look over, but I don't expect damage the way I used to when it would happen 10 years ago.
Never have used a case, or paid for Applecare, FWIW.
Loads of people at work have cracked screens. Makes me wonder if somebody else bought the phone (or a contract freebie) so they don't take care with several hundred euros worth of tech in their hands.
I've dropped my phones (plural, not the same one) three or four times in total (and then spent plenty of time on introspection berating myself) but since I think ahead, they have rubber back cases and screen protectors, so it's only ever been cosmetic damage. Accidents happen, but you can take steps to reduce the impact (pun intended) of such an eventuality.
That being said, people that drop their phone weekly... might want to get one of those Nokia tanks and be done with inherently fragile smartphones?
"Loads of people at work have cracked screens. Makes me wonder if somebody else bought the phone (or a contract freebie) so they don't take care with several hundred euros worth of tech in their hands."
I notice the same, although more often than not the ones I see are personally bought devices. It seems to be a subset of people - not only do they bust their phone, but they don't get it fixed quickly (or at all). I've got near-OCD about optical surfaces (any kind of lens or screen) being absolutely clean, fault free and unblemished, I just wouldn't be able to carry around and use a device with a bust screen.
A little Android portable computer (a freebie with a magazine subscription, surprisingly unsable but not at all nippy) was damn near fresh out of the box when the furry fiend decided to use it as a comfy cushion. I was like "nope" and picked her up. She was like "uh-huh human" and out came the claws to hang on. Eventually I got her detached and she stomped off glaring at me. Problem was, two of the four paws managed to remove keys. So I had to find the key top, find the plastic bit that goes inside, carefully prise off another key top to see how it actually worked, find the other plastic bit, and then start to reassemble the thing. The key for turning WiFi on and off doesn't feel quite right, but both look okay and they seem solid enough.
Icon, because if there's a weird way to break something, a cat will discover it. It's a shame she can't/won't do software testing.
> if there's a weird way to break something, a cat will discover it. It's a shame she can't/won't do software testing.
Software? Wetware!
All cats are fully occupied, stress-testing the human wetware.
They are doing it under contract to the mice, but after Magrathea shut down during the Galactic recession there are - issues - between the two, something about the cheque bouncing. Hence all the chasing, leaving the odd mouse head in bed etc after the cat mafia got stung.
I was wondering whether the UK editors had chosen the right beast for the image for this story.
The critters that moose and elk refer to are hopelessly confused when crossing the Atlantic and then chuck in Wapiti for good measure. :)
Apparently the moose (US) has its antlers growing out the side of its head while the elk (US) the antlers grow back over the shoulders.
So picture is actually of a moose (US) to my inexpert eyes. Big tick for el Rego attention to detail!
Seems the UK extirpated their elk (UK) centuries ago so pretty academic there.
Bullwinkle was a moose, Rocky just plain irritating.
"I was wondering whether the UK editors had chosen the right beast for the image for this story.”
Possibly; but even I, being a Brit, know what a moose looks like, basically a cylindrical tonne (or so) of meat suspended on four stupidly flimsy legs - and if you hit one, yes, you will take those legs out, no problem, except the rest of it will be just about the right hight to impact your windscreen at speed, (windshield? what do you call the slightly curved glass screen in front of you on the left side of the pond)?
And result in you not having a good day.
Biggest thing you might hit in the UK is a large deer/stag, and probably hitting one won’t be pleasant but not sure they are massive enough to take out your windscreen/shield and cause you physical injury.
> or even leaving it on top of a car (6 percent of respondents, would you believe?).
Years ago I did some work for a UK mobile phone company and they stuffed us into the office wherever they had space which resulted in me being next to the claims team taking telephone claims calls from customers.
In one case a man had put his phone on the car roof while filling up with petrol and then forgotten it when he drove off.
The phone company refused the claim on the grounds that he had left it unattended.
The moral of the story being: regardless of how you broke your phone, *always* say that you fumbled and dropped it while taking it out of your pocket/handbag.
“Whether they were angry with the device itself or it was just handy when they wanted something to hurl at someone isn't detailed.”
Or y’know, just read something emotionally challenging that made them throw it against a wall or across a room. Rather than the device, or someone present.
Maybe because I pay for my phones outright so feel the genuine cost, but I look after my devices. I’ve never had a key break on a laptop (how does that even happen?) and I’m pretty careful about how I treat my devices. My phone isn’t even in a case - just a leather effect skin on the back to stop
It sliding off things.
I do see devices on eBay with dents and missing keys and just think … how?
> I’ve never had a key break on a laptop (how does that even happen?)
No matter how good the extractor, dust from the laser cutter it is plugged into. And bits dropping out as you carry the cut sheet away, forgetting that it is only the commercially used cutting patterns that leave the little stubs that hold everything into the sheet (and leave rough bits that need sanding).
Not breakage, as you can normally clip them back on, but after learning finger positions from using a Proper Keyboard (where there is proper space for your guitar pluckers), it turns out you can hook a fingernail under a naff laptop keycap and flick it right off!
Young spoilt brat of a seriously rich daddy handed me her 17" MacBook Pro.
Wet, sand inside and out and keyboard sharply dented in several places.
"I left it on the beach and a wave broke over it, then when I was trying to dry it out a friend walked across it in high heels.....how long will it take to fix?"
Had several smartphones since 2010.
Last two have been Samsung. Always kept in a suitable wallet.
Their curved screen edge is a pain: it is very vulnerable to any small hard object in the pocket crunching the edge.
Current one is a Note 9. Screen has a cracj - the larger the phone the more the problem if you keep it in a normal size pocket, and this one is just that bit too big.
But I took it out of the wallet some time back and found that the back was a crazy paving.
Guys, glass is not a suitable material for the frame of a phone, you need something with just a little flex. The thing works just fine, but is presumably held together by the glue.
We've had one of those at work (not me I hasten to add!).
However, one of my cats is expert at causing liquid/Macbook confluences - so far, one orange juice over the keyboard (made the keyboard unusable but the MBP itself carried on working, one red-wine keyboard event (ditto for the orange juice although the kbd remained usable) and, lastly, another wine/MBP event (on the one she'd failed to kill with red wine) - knock over a glass well away from the MBP while I'm out of the room and wait for the wine to cover the tabletop and seep into the side vents. Cue me coming back into the room to find a wet tabletop and and *very* dead Mac)
The last one I'd specifically put on the house insurance that they paid up without a problem so I bought a higher-spec Apple-reconditioned MBP for less that the payout. That included buying a laptop stand to make sure she can't do the same trick in the future.
I suspect that, somewhere in the house, she has 3 lttle MBP sillouettes with red crosses over them.
Favorite phone was a droid with a kevlar case. never dropped never slipped. Soon as i went to a phone made with "premium" materials it slipped out of my hand and broke. If you're going to make phones out of glass or aluminum give them some texture so the won't slip or make them out of bullet proof materials. Last phone broke the display by just hitting a power cored on it's way to a carpeted floor. Got it fixed remarkably quickly about an hour. took the t to downtown and it was fixed by the time i got back to my office. got a non slippery case and in the past two years have had zero problems.
My SO had the front-shirt-pocket to bucket of water experience with a flip phone while washing windows. Dried it out and it was fine. Not so much when an ipad was left on top of the car. We backtracked and found it thoroughly run over on the road. One of my greatest IT triumphs ensued - I hooked that wreckage up and got a full backup before it finally expired. And got a replacement from Apple for $29 under warranty, which we couldn't have done without the corpse. Whew!
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