“Photographer Catalin Marin was taking photos of Dubai’s sunrise from the top of a building when he accidentally dropped his iPhone from the roof—and the device captured its entire 40 story plunge on video,” Reem Nasr reports for CNBC.
“”Amazingly the phone was without a scratch and on top of everything it captured the whole fall on video as I was filming at the moment I dropped it,” Marin wrote in a blog post,” Nasr reports.
Read more in the full article here.
Catalin Marin writes, “Unfortunately the shoot was cut unexpectedly short when I managed to drop my phone from the roof all the way to the ground (40 stories) and I had to go find it! Amazingly the phone was without a scratch and on top of everything it captured the whole fall on video as I was filming at the moment I dropped it.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Do not try this at home, but Apple build quality!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
I hereby judge that copycats can now fire up their copiers and copy Catalin Marin in the hope of whoring several hits!
If you slow the video down and play it backwards, you can you see who shot JFK.
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Oooo, that noise at the end is just awful! How in the world did it not even scratch?
I wish there was a picture of the phone, after the fall. It would be cool see a graph of the motion sensor. I think there is a way to pull that up.
Wonder what the L/D is for an iPhone.
Guess there are no pilots around.
Looks to me like Apple has a little work to do on their image stabilization software……..
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I vote this up there for the “Comment of the Year Award”. If there were 8 stars, I’d give them all to you!!
Laughing my ass off!
Yep, and it shall be called ‘Tumble-gate’.
I agree with Macanatic – you ought to get a special award for your comment. Brilliant.
I heard Tumblr has to transfer the trade mark rights for Tmblr over to Apple…..
A, the spinning slowed the phone down quite a lot.
I am guessing the iPhone hit grass or even shrubs which would slow the fall.
Still, cool ride.
Yes indeed! I only learned about this last month:
Terminal velocity
As the speed of an object increases, the drag force acting on the object, resultant of the substance (e.g., air or water) it is passing through, increases. At some speed, the drag or force of resistance will equal the gravitational pull on the object (buoyancy is considered below). At this point the object ceases to accelerate and continues falling at a constant speed called terminal velocity (also called settling velocity). An object moving downward with greater than terminal velocity (for example because it was thrown downwards or it fell from a thinner part of the atmosphere or it changed shape) will slow down until it reaches terminal velocity. Drag depends on the projected area, and this is why objects with a large projected area relative to mass, such as parachutes, have a lower terminal velocity than objects with a small projected area relative to mass, such as bullets.
The spinning of the iPhone demonstrates the redirection of falling energy into spinning energy which itself creates further air resistance. It would be fun to know the final speed of the iPhone when it hit ground as well as the spinning speed.
No scratches, but the iPhone’s accelerometer was in a state of shock for a few hours… 🙂
The Health app indicated death and had to be reset.
No way it landed on cement.
Had to land on grass. Or cotton candy.
I heard it wedged in Kim Kardashian’s butt crack. That weird noise at the end was the sound of an iPhone’s scream of terror.
That wedge can stop a runway diesel train easy! 🙊
The video captured the gravity of the situation like few videos do.
Waiting for ScamSkunk to duplicate the fall and claim their phone is less damaged. 🖖😀⌚️
Love to know what case the phone had. I’ve got one of those cases that feels like it could survive a 400-foot fall, too!
even landing on water from that distance is like landing on concrete…amazing
Thats one way to test the shutter speed of an iPhone! I believe that phone was doing 30 rotations a second for just a brief period…
The dumb shit. I always have a fear (minor) that when I am walking near a skyscraper some dumbs will somehow drop something from above and it slams into someone form below. This idiot confirms that there are morons who are capable of doing this. He should be fined!!!!!
If it was an iPhone 6, I wonder if it was bent??? :0)
I have no need for a smart phone. If I did, it would be an iPhone. I do, however, have a Samsung flip phone. One day I was getting out of my employers one ton Ford flatbed and my phone fell on the ground, popped open and was run over by the rear wheels as my employer left. Amazingly the phone still worked. The battery life was shortened, but a new battery corrected that problem. That was five years ago and it still works. So hooray for all phones that can take a licking and keep on ticking.
I call BS! I dropped my iPhone 6 Plus one week after I got it before I was able to get a case for it. I dropped it approximately 1 foot off the garage floor I was sitting on a step. It cracked the left hand corner near the audio jack.
My god… that is freaky! Can’t imagine free-falling into the ground myself… scary!… but it would be over so fast.
Toponsmor at answer me.com says “Speed = (acceleration) times (time) Acceleration = gravity = 9.8 meters (32.2 feet) per second2 Speed = 10g = 98 meters (322 feet)”
Those numbers do not look right. If time is 10 s, then using same assumption (falling in vacuum) give 1610 ft drop. If you assume 12 ft per floor, it was about 480 ft drop, so average speed was about 48 ft/s, not 322 ft/s. The iPhone hit its terminal velocity within first 2 s of its fall. I guess for iPhone after 5 floors (60 ft), additional floors do not affect the impact force.
Hopefully this will make all those Bendgate stories from last year worthless too.
Bullshit!