I’ve always found the fetishistic quality of unboxing videos to be a bit strange, if I’m honest. Even weirder, though, are the quasi-sadomasochistic videos unleashed by “stress testers” like YouTube’s seemingly damaged Ukrainian tech lover hater TechRax, whose videos watch like an Apple ad directed by the Marquis de Sade.
Fifty Shades of Space Gray, amirite?
Anyway, TechRax’s latest video shows an innocent young iPhone 6 meeting its maker at the hands of some former soda cans heated into a hot liquid using a mini-furnace. If you’ve wondered whether it’s a good idea to store your beloved Apple handset in the same drawer as a puddle of molten metal, you’ll get your answer after the jump.
It’s not pretty.
Tetra’s previous videos show his apparently limitless collection of new iPhones contending with everything from angle grinders to boiling Coca-Cola. As it turns out, Bendgate is the least of Apple’s problems…
Source: YouTube
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
15 responses to “Why brand new iPhones and molten metal don’t mix”
I really wish you’d stop giving these fools prime space on the web site. Honestly, I find stuff like this offensive. There’s a lot of people who’d love to have devices like these, and they are ruined by idiots with too much money and not enough respect for the sheer purpose of clickbait–and you’re *helping* them. Honestly, what’s the point? Which iPhone user will ever see a situation like this? These entries are the day-time-TV sensationalism of blog posts, and it quite frankly looks bad on you.
Completely agree. I just discovered Cult of Mac a couple days ago, thinking it might be something worth reading regularly. Now I’m reconsidering that decision.
+1
Wrong wrong wrong, a few days ago i had to venture into an alternate universe where is rains molten aluminum, my only method of cumunication was going to be my iPhone, thanks to this video i was able to change devices.
TechRax…..should have known from the title….
Not sure I understand the point here. To make sure not to have molten metal in my pocket before placing iphone there? Why is this even worth an article?
Agreed. Why is this even a thing? There must be something more constructive to cover. Ridiculous waste of space.
I think everyone knows better than to drop Molten Metal or Liquid Nitrogen or any kind of Acid on an iPhone.
You sir should have been swallowed
Am I the only one that just watched it hoping something would explode and give this moron 3rd degree burns? Shrapnel? I hope not.
Why?
That was weak. And when the guy started doing stuff like flipping over the iPhone and pushing it down into the metal, he completely ruined whatever scientific credibility his silly little test still held. And rather than take the phone back to the lab to analyze the damage done by the molten metal, the goofball just starts smashing the phone and hitting it with a torch. Really weak on all fronts.
The best part of the video was imagining the disappointment the guy must’ve been feeling when his molten metal only came out in globs, rather then pouring over the face of the phone. Even as a celebration of destruction this was weak.
puring liquid metal on top of an iphone’s screen?… ok.. that’s just stupid
I had a incident not unlike this the other day. I was driving with my iPhone 6 in my lap and spilled Starbucks coffee on it, which is only slightly hotter than molten aluminum, and my phone looked almost exactly like that. Oddly, right after it happened I turned the phone over and started rubbing it on my leg similar to the video. I guess the video may have some scientific credibility after all.