http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/ Engadget Comments for Video: Tech21's iBand protective case and its mystical, magical, non-Newtonian goo http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
Distributors in the UK charge an arm and a leg to ship to the states, but I found it on eBay for $30 shipped and snagged one ($27 with cash back). Not a bad investment.]]>Aug 31st 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/]]>Aug 31st 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Another famous non-newtonian liquid is custard !]]>Aug 31st 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
One note: hard disks aren't supposed to resist this kind of acceleration, so you can actually kill them.

The tests they show here aren't really convincing. A better test would be to take an egg, wrap some of the orange goo around it and hit it with a spade (or shoot it with a bb gun)]]>Aug 31st 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
iPhones and iPod Touch's don't have hard drives, so I don't see how this wasn't a good demonstration.]]>Aug 31st 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
Its debatable if this is any better that rubber. This distributes the forces better but on the other hand pure rubber reduces g-forces more. ]]>Aug 31st 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.d3o.com/products.php?section=4]]>Sep 1st 2009 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuTsXpbLfRU&feature=related]]>Sep 1st 2009 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/(You could almost think of it as if someone suddenly punched you in the stomach and your muscles contract and harden to take the blow more effectively)]]>Aug 31st 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
Knee pads work on the same principle. They spread out the force of a fall over a larger area with a hard stiff material except they also have a sponge material behind the hard material to dissipate the forces of the fall to further lesson damage to you knee. That is something this case material can't do.]]>Aug 31st 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
From what I remember, the d3o substance will not all harden at once at the moment of impact. What happens is that the point of impact will harden the most, faster than all the other material. As you move further from the impact, the material hardens less and less, so what you get is a almost like a hard outer shell, with a softer material on the inner part, aiding the shock absorption/energy dissipation. The delocalization of the impact probably goes a long way towards preventing cracks and such.

Even though this does help with the g-forces a little bit, there's no way any case is going to protect an electronic device from every fall. There just isn't a means to slow down the impact enough. Increasing the time of impact means increasing the distance, and a case can only do that so much.]]>Sep 17th 2009 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Sep 1st 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/]]>Aug 31st 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
How is it a fair demonstration of a product not to use the product?]]>Aug 31st 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/479/3003&cl=us,en]]>Aug 31st 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/Aug 31st 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/video-tech21s-iband-protective-case-and-its-mystical-magical/
'It's ugly [the consumer product, to which aesthetics are relevant], therefore the science behind it is pointless.'

However his comment doesn't really make a lot of sense since the point of science is to study the physical world so the 'science behind' things can never be pointless, that's the point.

My guess as to what he meant would be that; the product is ugly, therefore it won't sell. Since the product isn't going to sell it really isn't worth informing us, potential buyers, on how it works. But that's just a guess.

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