Robotic Butt Tests the Strength of Smartphones

Some owners of the new iPhone 6 report that it bends and even breaks when kept in back pants pockets. Consumer technology journalists are calling the scandal "Bendgate"--a reference to the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon Administration. This hardware problem probably won't destroy Apple, but it has caused the company to become the butt of many jokes.

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Samsung, one of Apple's competitors, would like for you to know that its Galaxy Note 4 smartphones are buttproof--or at least buttresistant. As this video shows, Samsung uses a robotic butt to repeatedly pound its phones in order to test their durability.

-via Technabob

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Yes. Absolutely.
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No. Depression and Anxiety always existed. There's two factors here:1.) When you have 7.6 billion humans, everything becomes more visible. Whether it's autism or depression or people who like taco bell. Everything scales. Water is just as abundant on Earth as technology is. Humans interact with water and technology. No one is blaming water for depression. Also technology started with rocks and sticks and mud. Did mud cause depression? 2.)Life is self-evident. If people weren't first susceptible to things like alcohol, depression, technology, etc. - they would never engage with it. Technology didn't give organisms addictive personalities or aggressive egos. It only gave us what we were already wanting.Humans love simple theories in the same way they love doritos and coca cola. It's cheap, it tastes good, and requires no self reflection.

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