See this iPad? It’s a hit-and-park casualty, gunned down in its prime by the treaded wheels (both front and back) of a Chrysler PT Cruiser, a car so heavy that even the standard Apple case was not enough to prevent it from being smashed nearly to smithereens.
But god bless Gorilla Glass and Apple’s fine craftsmanship, because unbelievably, this iPad still works, from multitouch down right to the marrow of its accelerometers. What a champ.
Of course, how “functional” this is depends a lot on how you feel about dragging your finger across a planar surface comprised of thousands of tightly packed, razor sharp glass shards. Does multitouch still work when you’ve scraped your pointing digit down to just a protruding bit of skeleton?
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.
