Comments on: iPad Survives Fall of 100,000 Feet From Space [Video]

By: Joe Pegg

Joe Pegg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:58:55 +0000

Great video, but why did you cut the fall?! You should’ve sped it up, I tuned in to see an iPad and goPro fall from space, not to see you looking for it afterwards! That’s a real shame.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:48:54 +0000

So I can just drop my iPad from about ten stories up and see what happens. That sounds so much easier. I don’t even have a weather balloon.

By: BS

BS — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:00:15 +0000

I call me to take the stand.

By: Joe Edwards

Joe Edwards — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:58:45 +0000

I think this is more a demonstration of the iPad’s ability to handle extreme temperature changes. Also, the iPad landed on its back. If it had landed face down things would have been different. Is the case designed to land so that the back is down. If so, what height is needed to accomplish this feat?

By: HEyoo

HEyoo — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:06:38 +0000

That’s good, because the title is “iPad Survives Fall of 100,000 Feet” and yes G-Form makes cases for Kindle too.

By: Soyib

Soyib — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:33:58 +0000

Title should be not “iPad survived from 1000 feet” because there is no way iPad survives even from 5 miter (if not wrap it up with 10 miter bubble-wrap ) if place amazon Kindle in the same cover it will “survive”

By: David

David — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:13:44 +0000

Wonder what would happen if the glass face hit the rocks? Cool but agree with other comments and wonder how many times they had to do it before it “worked”??

By: Alberto

Alberto — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:44:59 +0000

And what should that demonstrate??

By: clasqm

clasqm — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:17:37 +0000

Nice. But will it survive being handled by my three-year old? Now there’s the real test.

By: roberto

roberto — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:04:43 +0000

Looks like they used this for the GPS tracking:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=68084&ra=true

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:51:56 +0000

Is that the curvature of the Earth or just the camera’s fisheye effect?

By: Zach L.

Zach L. — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:47:52 +0000

I’m just as impressed in the GoPro cameras ability to survive a big fall than anything else. As Tyler mentioned though, both pieces of hardware will hit terminal velocity after about 100′ so anything greater isn’t going to matter. Great marketing stunt though and it’s nice to see space from time to time.

By: wwong

wwong — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:46:13 +0000

So what is being used to protect the camera that films the whole process. Or sorry for my ignorance about the camera itself.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:03:30 +0000

Tyler said it all.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:25:30 +0000

thats impressive, no matter what, but just bringing it to new heights doesn’t do anything after so many thousand feet. terminal velocity on an ipad laying flat is probably reached very quickly and it will never fall more quickly than that. i’d like to see it fall on its edge.