VIDEO: G-Form iPad case protects your tablet from a quarter mile drop

Dan Seitz Contributing Writer, Tech

iPads are expensive: $500 at minimum, and that’s if you want to go without a cellular plan. So you want to protect them from damage. But how do you pull that off? Get the guys who specialize in keeping extreme sports types from breaking bones to make you an iPad case, that’s how. And G-Form, to prove their point with the Extreme Portfolio protecting your iPad from anything, recently chucked them out of a plane.

No, seriously.

How does this work, anyway? Essentially, by using pockets stuffed with gel that harden on impact and absorb the kinect energy. Remember as a kid, how you’d mix cornstarch and water and have a fluid you could pound into a solid? Like that, only with more science added.

So, how much will protecting your iPad from being thrown from a great height cost you? $90 for the Portfolio, but if you just want a sleeve, that’ll run you $60. And before you ask, yep, they’ve got laptop cases too.

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