Sunday, May 15, 2011

Survived a hit and run: iPad 2 sleeve

Last month, in a marketing stunt, an iPad 2 encased in a $59.99 G-Form "extreme" sleeve was tossed out of a plane and survived just fine. So what, right? Who drops their iPad out of a plane?

Well, the folks over at the Canadian website Mobile Syrup decided to do a more practical test: they ran a G-Form protected iPad 2 over with a car.

In a bit of drama, after they ran it over, they discovered that the video they had running during the test had stopped playing. But once the sleeve came off, the iPad ended up turning on just fine.
Note to Android fanboys who will take issue with us writing up another Apple story: The Motorola Xoom should fit inside the G-Form sleeve.

Read more at cNet News: http://news.cnet.com/sleeved-ipad-2-run-over-by-car-survives/8301-17938_105-20063027-1.html#ixzz1MRYSscis