Last month, Sir Lancelot’s Armor, a maker of screen protectors for smartphones, emailed Ars Technica and asked them if they would review the “first reusable screen protector for iPhones and iPads made out of bulletproof glass.”
So how bulletproof was their screen protector? Ars Technica put it to the test the only way they knew how… by firing a full clip from a Beretta into it at the range. Here’s how it did.
Hint: it didn’t do well.
To be fair, Sir Lancelot never claimed the screen protector itself was bulletproof, just that it was made of tempered bulletproof glass… properties which were obviously dilluted somewhere along the line. But hey!
Otherwise, it’ll protect your iPhone from the usual scrapes and scratches better than most screen protectors. How often do you shoot your iPhone anyway?
Source: Ars Technica
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.
One response to “This iPhone Screen Protector Is Supposed To Be Bulletproof, But Is It Really? [Video]”
I don’t know how many times I might shoot my iPhone, but it is good to know that it can stop a bullet: http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/10/28/shot_fired_during_ro.html
BTW, we call them “magazines.”