Night Vision Shows the Unseen iPhone

Lonnie Lazar ()

Cult reader Flunky Carter shares this interesting survey of his iPhone shot using a webcam’s Night Vision.

Small cracks and stress fractures he says are not visible to the naked eye under normal lighting conditions show Apple’s mobile device takes significant wear and tear in the real world.

Thanks FC!

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  • Cal

    All I see are a bunch of scratches. What does it matter anyway as long as they do not cause a problem with the function of the phone. Every motorola phone that I have ever had shows noticeable cracks after a year of use but it never caused a problem so I didn’t worry about it. My iphone has weathered much better than any other mobile phone that I have owned. Some of you need to find more productive ways to spend your leisure time!

  • MSAL

    This was certainly dumb.

  • JJ

    Seriously? of course its going to be scratched.

    What did you think it was made up of some kind of alien material that is scratch resistant?

    buy a protector if you need one… sheesh…

  • CM

    Get an InvisibleShield, duffus!

  • firesign

    and this proves what exactly? i suspect that if you do this with any portable device with a screen you’ll get the same result.

  • flunkycarter

    Aww come on! It took me like 1 minute and half to film, another 2 minutes to edit in iMovie, and another 2 minutes to upload. If I didn’t have five minutes to dedicate to silly sleuthing as I was reviewing a night vision camera, then I would be concerned about having not enough time on my hands to enjoy life.

    Yes, I agree as well Cal, that my iPhone has weathered better than my other phones, but I could see the ugly damage all over it… On my iPhone, it’s practically non-existent, aside from some slight surface scratching, which made it all the more a WTF? moment when I viewed it under the night vision.

    Plus, it isn’t everyday you can see through the iPhone and see it’s skeletal underpinnings, bolts, compartments etc…, aside from disassembling the phone, and that alone was pretty cool.

  • irishspoon

    Apple made a calculated decision to not pursue the night vision goggle wearing crowd… that’s coming in the 4G model.

  • imajoebob

    And this is exceptional, how?