Slow Motion Destruction of iPhones Filmed on an iPhone 5s

For those of you who think you've already fulfilled every iPhone fetish known to man, perhaps we've found one more activity to indulge your senses.

Today we present to you the brilliant, if not painful, slow motion destruction of iPhones using everyday household items. Filmed by Jeremiah Warren on an iPhone 5s at 120 fps, you're sure not to miss any of the hysteria.
Here at DashBurst we acknowledge that humans have an inclination toward accidentally destroying our phones, especially by dropping them. To help prevent such accidents from happening, we've demoed products to help your phone never get wet again. But blatantly dropping our smartphones into a jar of soda, a grill, or just directly setting our phones on fire, as shown in this video, isn't very smart. It may cause even the most calm and collected Apple fanboy to flip his lid.
That's right, folks, it turns out that the Kings Of Leon aren't the only things "on fire" these days. If the entire experience of watching the iPhones destroyed wasn't smooth enough for you, wait until 0:43 when one of the victim iPhones is coated with a layer of peanut butter to sweetly top things off at the end!


We asked Jeremiah about his inspiration behind the video and wanted to know how many times he's actually unintentionally broken his smartphone:

When I had my iPhone 3Gs I messed up the audio jack when my headphones were ripped out. I changed out the jack myself and accidentally messed up the home button in the process. I learned to leave DIY phone fixing to more experienced people. I've dropped my old 4s on concrete and rocks about 5 different times, but amazingly the screen has stayed intact.
I waited in line at the Apple store last Friday so that I could get the new iPhone 5s as soon as possible. I had a few videos ideas in mind, including the slow motion destruction one. I was attending a conference on the same day so I was only able to film the destruction video, but it has done well view wise, so I'm happy.

Also, according to Jeremiah, "Zero phones were injured while making the video. I used fake dummy phones. " Apple fans and the spirit of Steve Jobs can rest easy again!





Are you, like me, weirdly amused by this video of destruction or do these actions make you feel sick and considered sacrilege?

4 Things You Didn't Know Facebook Knew About You

Your Facebook profile may know you better than your spouse does. Digital Trends recently published a how-to guide for users who want to view the personal information Facebook has stored in its personal data archive. We were amazed to discover some of the details Facebook stores about each user.

People You Creep

We all creep on Facebook. You may think you're sneaky because you never actually click anything on your crush's profile, and because you don't leave a trail of Likes and comments. But Facebook still knows all. The site keeps a record of everything you type into the search bar, meaning it knows how often you enter the name of your high school nemesis or your ex-girlfriend.

What You Look Like

Facebook knows what you look like. You have no reason to be surprised by this. After all, who gave Facebook all those pictures of you? Facebook hasn't been hiding the fact that it can recognize your face: automatic tagging is a feature you can opt into, and it's a straight-up admission on Facebook's part that it can tell your face from all other faces in the world. The automatic tagging is a useful feature, though, so we don't blame you for being in denial that Facebook can spot your face anywhere.

Your Credit Card Information

You may have saved yourself from this one. The site stores your credit card information, but only if you hand it over. If you didn't buy Farmville extension packs or make other in-app purchases, you're in the clear... Assuming you didn't buy any of the gift cards Facebook hawks every time your friend has a birthday. But if Facebook has your credit card information, we have no sympathy: if you're giving Facebook money, you're doing it wrong.

Your Susceptibility to Advertising

When an ad is delivered to you on Facebook, it's been chosen for you based on how you've used Facebook in the past. Facebook has a list of ad topics it thinks you're susceptible to based on a record it keeps of every ad you've clicked on and when you clicked on it. That list of topics probably reveals a good deal about your interests.

Though we whine that Facebook knows too much, we ourselves are, in fact, the ones handing that information over. Since many of us are used to communication tools that don't record every detail of our lives – the post office, for example, doesn't keep a record of the letters we send – it's easy for us to forget how easy we've made it for Facebook to come to know us. It's a problem, but you're not going to quit Facebook... Are you?