Apple’s Smart Cover for iPad 2 is great for protecting your iPad’s display from nicks and scrapes while in your gadget bag, but how good is it actually protecting your iPad 2 when it goes flying from your butterfingers to skitter across the concrete pavement?
As this admittedly squeamish video from third-party warranty sellers SquareTrade makes clear, pretty well. Falling flat on concrete from waist high, the Smart Cover is enough to save your iPad 2’s display from any marrings.
It even does pretty well protecting the iPad 2 dropped from shoulder height: there’s a few light crackings of the display, but it’s not too bad, and mostly seems to be due to the Smart Cover’s magnetic cover tearing off in the fall.
Don’t try this at home.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
48 responses to “How Smart Is An iPad 2 Smart Cover When It Comes To Headbutting Concrete? [Video]”
If you didn’t want your iPad 2, I could have taken it off your hands. What a waste.
They are just stupid, why not giving it to an orphanage or something??
assholes.
lolx nice 1 !
I couldn’t agree more, my ipad 2 is in the post and I’ve been awaiting it eagerly. It makes me feel ill seeing it smashed to bits! Nice test though.
Terrible, why post this? “Hurr hurr I wonder if my head will be able to withstand a blow with an axe hurr hurr lets film it”
What a waste.
Americans… You are so dumb
incredibly simpleminded and arrogantly wasteful.
Or instead of breaking an iPad you could have just done some simple math to find the shatter point of gorilla glass…idiots.
That made my stomach churn in detest… What did those iPads ever do to you? If you didn’t want them you should have given them to a school. The kids would have loved them…. :(
It made me want to cover my eyes. A crime against the iPad. Steve Jobs would not like this video.
Massive waste. Stupid people.
I would totally recommend a smart cover, or better yet, a durable case for your ipad2, if dropping your ipad2 facedown, like these folks, is what you intend to do with your ipad :)
They’re probably like, “I can’t wait to get an ipad2 so I can drop it facedown from my waist high, so I cqn see its display shatter”.
i guess the ipad couldnt stand it, flimsy bit of gear
Up next: Does It Blend?
These things are so uninteresting. What a waste. I agree with a previous poster – give them to a school. Idiots.
How many stupid people like that..???
What retards. Seriously wasteful. How much money do these people have? Obviously enough to smash iPads for the fun of it. I would love an iPad, but what do these people do? Smash them. This website should not of included this article. :(
jackasses!
I’m digging all the iPad love in here. Knowing all of you felt that same rage boiling up while watching this video makes me feel a bit more normal.
ahhhh i just died inside watching this
Retards……
Cult of Mac shouldn’t give these morons the time of day let alone a mention on the site. People are getting mugged and killed for these things and they’re destroying them for fun !
just stupid !!!!
Look at all the hate that silly test has caused. That would work better on an Android site…
I recommend the SwitchEasy Canvas for the Ipad 2. Best of everything! Sleep on/off when you close the lid, maximum protection, Viewing stand modes and a typing mode as well.
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Why is everyone here so adamant on them doing what’s “right” or “good” for mankind? They just broke two iPads, it isn’t the end of the world. If anything it will remind people to be a little extra careful when walking around with theirs; I would like to keep anything I paid at least 500 for work for years to come.
Lighten up.