Impressive And Scary How Many Bullets An iPad 3 Can Survive

People have spent years wondering, if an airplane's black box can be found intact after even the most horrific and violent crashes, why not use build an entire plane from those materials?

It's a fair question. Just as fair, after seeing this video from Gizmodo's Tech Assassin: how much safer and more durable could more products be if we only built them from the same stuff we put into and outside of trendy, gratingly ubiquitous, overpriced electronics?

OK, so the iPad 3 doesn't come away completely unscathed. But think about the HK53 assault rifle it was made to square up against. It's a modification of a model used by the Brazilian Air Force, U.S. Border Patrol and also the armed forces of Thailand and Malaysia, to name just a few proponents. It can crank out 700 rounds per minute, at a typical muzzle velocity of 2,460.6 feet per second.

The tale of the tape on the iPad 3? It's less than a half-inch thick, measures 9.5" x 7.3", tips the scales at 1.44 pounds and retails starting at $499.

This should be a no-brainer like matching Vitali Klitschko against a third-grade bully. One would think the HK53 would shred this thing. Would you believe that while it sure did some damage, this less-than-two-pound personal device remained mostly structurally intact? Sure, the proverbial s*** got real right around the time a Benelli .12-gauge shotgun with some out-of-the-ordinary ammo entered the fray, but even that didn't do quite the damage we'd probably all expect.

This thing might be worth the 500 bucks for the astounding durability alone. Some serious bludgeoning could be done with this thing, without even having to re-install "Angry Birds" later.