Oh well. Molly Wood on "Always On" tries to destroy hardware on a weekly basis. Drop test from various heights, sliding a slate iphone5 across concrete to see if it scratches (guess what there?), baking it, freezing it, dunking it, setting a macbook air on top of a car and driving off as it falls off the back and hits the pavement (the case sprung open at the hinge from that, so of course next is the dunk test; surprise: it didn't survive that!). Not just apple; she abuses everything! One thing I learned from one of these: don't drop a Kindle Fire; it won't do well. Of course my simple advice is if you don't want to break your electronics, well, just don't damn drop it!