Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend?

I've been enjoying the Will it Blend videos forever. There's something about a labcoat clad crazy man putting things like marbles and soda cans into a blender and after reducing them to powder, warning you not to breathe in the particles. Well today they ask the ultimate question of the latest over-hyped internet sensation Will the iPhone Blend? Fans of these videos can probably guess the answer... and this story made my morning. I've been waiting for an excuse to link these forever. If you haven't seen these, you're in for a real treat.

It always seems to

[andyh3930]

As well as being fun, its an amazing ad for the company, everything they but into their blenders ends up as toxic dust!!!

Gotta admit, that blender is quite good...

[MSFanBoi2]

I don't think I've seen anything stop it from blending.

Sell it on eBay...

[Choad Namath]

Assuming this [ebay.com] is real, he wasn't just joking at the end.

The iPhone is pretty tough

[PorkNutz]

Notice how long the screen kept going. Even after the blender had started shredding the phone... the screen was still working. Impressive.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Or be in the same room! I love how they skip over the battary exploding. Guess it isn't good for advertising having your blender explode.

This and the fact he doesn't cover his mouth when opening the blender makes me think the whole thing is fake. Faking it is a lot cheaper than buying all those expensive goods to blend and a lot safer. It is not like anyone would be able to tell the difference in between the real thing and faking it. If watch slowly you would notice the bounce of the iPhone during the full speed and the slow-mo are different (so maybe they killed more than one iPhone!). If you look closely at 0:35 the internal you see is this brown-ish circlular thing. Nothing like the internals of the iPhone! [anandtech.com] Maybe they are using fake iPhones? I see nothing simillar in the iPhone (if anyone does please reply!). The only thing which is brown is this wiring [anandtech.com] unlike the Zune.

I don't get why his ebay account has a purchase of a 4GB model on the 5th for $600 but it does look like either he is using fake iPhones or faked the whole thing,

I say Blendtec are genuis as business and marketing. I wouldn't mind to have been working at such a place during my teen years. It would of given me quiet a bit of experience.

-- OU. I would of logged in but my password is random and I am on a shared computer.

Re:Crowbars don't blend....easily.

[smellsofbikes]

I spend a lot of time in metal yards, buying scrap for various art projects. One of the frightening things to watch is people using stock woodworking equipment on aluminum, and I'm talking running a 2" thick plate of aluminum 5" wide and 10' long through a radial arm saw with a standard carbide blade on it. The noise is incredible, especially when they're running, say, huge sheets of 1/8" plate aluminum through tablesaws.
I have yet to buy/use one, but people are selling blades that are rated to cut steel using a standard cutoff/skilsaw, one of those handheld ones. It's hard to describe the showers of sparks coming off these things. My neighbor across the street and I both have abrasive cutoff saws, and we can easily throw sparkstreams across the street into each other's yards cutting heavy steel tubing. But of course those are *designed* for cutting steel. It's frightening watching woodworking tools that can tolerate/handle steel.

actually now I'm reminded of a time when my brother was cutting a hole for a garage door in a building, with a skilsaw, and someone came up and set a storm sewer grating against the wall where he was working. He said the cut speed really slowed down and there were a *lot* of sparks, but he got through several of the crossmembers, which were probably 3/4" square, before the skilsaw really started acting unhappy. He said he thought he'd just hit some nails. (it wasn't HIS skilsaw so he didn't stop immediately: the tragedy of rental tools writ large.)

democratization and increased value

[SoyChemist]

You Tube has not just democratized film production, but also increased the value of advertisements. With high quality viral advertising like this, I actually feel that the video deserves my attention. With television ads, I often feel that they invade my attention and are unworthy of it.