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Post by ironhold on Oct 29, 2013 14:49:21 GMT
As I recall, this was the first attempt on the part of the team to determine whether or not something was bulletproof. Well, according to this news report here, we can add "cell phones" to the list. The phone, made by HTC, reportedly protected a store clerk from being shot during a robbery. |
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Post by the light works on Oct 29, 2013 15:09:11 GMT
As I recall, this was the first attempt on the part of the team to determine whether or not something was bulletproof. Well, according to this news report here, we can add "cell phones" to the list. The phone, made by HTC, reportedly protected a store clerk from being shot during a robbery. I think this one also just got brought up as "bulletproof 3.0" or words to that effect. |
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Post by blazerrose on Oct 30, 2013 4:34:59 GMT
Might need a revisit - when they did iPod/iPhone, it was busted badly.
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Post by OziRiS on Nov 12, 2013 17:08:02 GMT
I think this may venture too far into product endorsement for them to want to test.
You can't just test "a cell phone" for this one. You have to test the exact phone and that would - since they already tested the iPhone - turn out to be a case of 'is this phone better than the other one?' I don't see them going there, interesting as it may be.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jan 7, 2014 1:08:17 GMT
As I think I pointed out when discussing these 'bullet proof' myths, quite often they involve situations where it is not unreasonable to assume old or low quality ammunition*. Meaning that practically all of the 'X-stopped a bullet' stories could be explained by defective rounds. In a lot of the other cases it is possible, if you read the reports closely, that the bullet that was found in the object had hit something else first.
(*I'd assume that someone who's planning to rob a convenience store or gas station is not go out and buy new ammunition, and in many cases might not be legally able to do so anyway. This makes it likely that they are using whatever ammunition they can buy on the street.)
Because of this I'd argue that 'bullet proof' myths would need to have something faintly plausible about them. By which I mean something about the item in question that *might* be possible of stopping a bullet (such as the battery in a laptop) and not be too similar to items they have tested before.
Otherwise they'd effectively be testing the same myths and almost certainly getting the same results time after time.
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